Why are all these files created and saved?

[Ryan Rix]

The XML is pretty easy to read; It's used to restore your position and
zoom for the document so that the next time it's opened, the position
and zoom is restored.

Brian Cluff <brian at snaptek.com> writes:
> 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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