Ran verify permissions, now i have two odd files at root on my HD: ?¡ and ?¡.dat

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ffactory

macrumors newbie

Original poster

• Apr 6, 2004

• #1

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

macrumors 65816

• Apr 6, 2004

• #2

ffactory said:

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

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I just repaired permissions and I do not have these files on 10.3.3. It could be something in Jag.

 

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ffactory

macrumors newbie

Original poster

• Apr 6, 2004

• #3

tomf87 said:

I just repaired permissions and I do not have these files on 10.3.3. It could be something in Jag.

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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

macrumors 6502a

• Apr 6, 2004

• #4

If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

 

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ffactory

macrumors newbie

Original poster

• Apr 6, 2004

• #5

dukemeiser said:

If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

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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!