Why these mostly empty hidden files?

[Jim March]

Yeah, I can confirm the same thing in Ubuntu Maverick.

WTF is this stuff?

Jim

On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 5:26 PM,  <joe at actionline.com> 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
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> Very annoying.
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