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ffactory
Apr 6, 2004, 09:46 AM
This happened on an iBook I use at work too. I know it's probably nothing, but preview says it's a simpletext file with untranslatable chinese characters. Is it safe to delete these files?

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10.2.8 on 12" PB 867


tomf87
Apr 6, 2004, 09:55 AM
This happened on an iBook I use at work too. I know it's probably nothing, but preview says it's a simpletext file with untranslatable chinese characters. Is it safe to delete these files?

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10.2.8 on 12" PB 867

I just repaired permissions and I do not have these files on 10.3.3. It could be something in Jag.
ffactory
Apr 6, 2004, 04:27 PM
I just repaired permissions and I do not have these files on 10.3.3. It could be something in Jag.

it must be since it showed up on both machines, months apart.

the post title actually quotes the characters wrong: in place of ? you should see an upside-down carat symbol... does anyone know what type of file this might be (aside from the obvious .dat file)-- ie: can i work backwards to find out what application created it?
dukemeiser
Apr 6, 2004, 08:22 PM
If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
ffactory
Apr 6, 2004, 10:44 PM
If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

true, but i don't like it when two mysterious files suddenly appear at root, one with chinese encoding... makes me think my security's been compromised :(

i'll just bide my time until someone who has experienced the same thing takes pity and reads my newbie post... until then i'll be studying mandarin!