Re: Why these mostly empty hidden files?

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Author: Andrew Harris
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Subject: Re: Why these mostly empty hidden files?
Wow, it's like somebody did work for all those directories and files
and they don't want to pay the bill. Am I right, Jim?

On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 5:42 PM, Jim March <> wrote:
> Yeah, I can confirm the same thing in Ubuntu Maverick.
>
> WTF is this stuff?
>
> Jim
>
> On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 5:26 PM,  <> wrote:
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>> Today, I was shocked to find a thousand-plus empty hidden directories and
>> files on my system and I don't know how they got there or why there are
>> there.
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>> Is there any reason why I should not delete them?
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>> There may be more in other places, but the ones I just discovered are
>> buried deep in these two sub-directories:
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>> /home/joe/.macromedia/Flash_Player/#SharedObjects/2ETARA88
>> /home/joe/.macromedia/Flash_Player/macromedia.com/support/flashplayer/sys
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>> I hate flash for a lot of reasons, but now even more as it seems to be
>> hiding things on my system -- 310 mostly empty directories in 2ETARA88 and
>> another 1227 mostly empty directories in flashplayer/sys
>>
>> Very annoying.
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