Why these mostly empty hidden files?

[Dan Lund]

It could be done, but basically that would make flash fail in doing what it's doing because it can't write files.
I guess in this case, the fix would be to disable flash :D

--Dan

On May 3, 2011, at 11:02 PM, Ben Trussell wrote:

> Judicious use of the chmod and/or setfacl commands a potential cure  ?
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 10:51 PM, Dan Lund
> <situationalawareness at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Never attribute to malice what can be easily attributed to laziness/hubris :)
>> 
>> I'm sure it's just flash leaving it's wrappers laying around after camping.
>> 
>> --Dan
>> 
>> On May 3, 2011, at 10:45 PM, Andrew Harris wrote:
>> 
>>> Seems like an unlikely candidate. But we've had less likely candidates.
>>> 
>>> On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 10:37 PM, Jim March <1.jim.march at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Funny.  No, it's more like there's a whole pile of tracking stuff of
>>>> some sort that I for one didn't know about.
>>>> 
>>>> Jim
>>>> 
>>>> On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 10:33 PM, Andrew Harris <tuna at supertunaman.com> wrote:
>>>>> 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 <1.jim.march at gmail.com> 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,  <joe at actionline.com> wrote:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 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.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Is there any reason why I should not delete them?
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> There may be more in other places, but the ones I just discovered are
>>>>>>> buried deep in these two sub-directories:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> /home/joe/.macromedia/Flash_Player/#SharedObjects/2ETARA88
>>>>>>> /home/joe/.macromedia/Flash_Player/macromedia.com/support/flashplayer/sys
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 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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