Why are all these files created and saved?

[Brian Cluff]

The amount of space they waste is so negligible that you would die of 
old age long before the space they take up would matter, even if all you 
did was view PDF's ass day long, but if they bother you all that much, 
why don't you make a script that goes though your system and deletes all 
the files you don't care about and then add it to your list of Autostart 
scripts so that it gets run ever time you login.  That should keep your 
machine relatively clean all the time.

Brian Cluff

On 07/11/2017 12:06 PM, joe at actionline.com wrote:
> Can someone please tell me why 'okular' saves a
> file like the example below every time it is used?
>
> Is there any good reason why all these hundreds
> of nuisance files should not be deleted? I've
> deleted a few and it has no affect on opening
> another copy of the example .pdf file.
>
> What (if anything) is the purpose for okular
> to create all these nuisance files to clutter
> up my file system? And is there some way to
> put a stop to it?
>
> The same seems to be true for an unknown number
> of other programs that create thousands of what
> seem to be nuisance, space-wasting files that I
> keep finding on my system.
>
>
> ~/.kde/share/apps/okular/docdata/239422.edge.pdf.xml
>
> CONTENTS:
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
> <!DOCTYPE documentInfo>
> <documentInfo
> url="/home/joe/.kde/share/apps/okular/docdata/239422.edge.pdf.xml">
>   <pageList/>
>   <generalInfo>
>    <history>
>     <current viewport="0;C2:0.499582:0.304825:1"/>
>    </history>
>    <views>
>     <view name="PageView">
>      <zoom mode="1" value="1.995"/>
>     </view>
>    </views>
>   </generalInfo>
> </documentInfo>
>
>
>
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