Why these mostly empty hidden files?

[Jill]

I'd say they're flash cookies or LSOs.  

Debian 6, with the Firefox "BetterPrivacy" plugin configured to delete
DOM and LSOs everytime I close the browser.  At first I only had a
settings.sol and a #mail.google.com item in each of those folders - and
the only thing I'd done in Firefox since I had signed on was pull up
gmail.  I pulled up a youtube video and that added a #s.ytimg.com.
Closing the browser left me with just the settings.sol file.  So they
should be safe to delete, but you'll need a plugin if you want to do it
automatically - the browser won't be aware of them when you delete your
regular cookies.

Jill


> 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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