Recovered Items in trash on boot

[davidlv]

On a fresh boot of my G5 Power Mac (latest version late 2005, 2GHz), there are usually several fonts in the trash in a folder named Recovered Items. All of the fonts are fonts I have disabled using Font Book, some are normal fonts and some are system fonts that throw up a message to the effect of "Are you sure you want to disable this font?...." when disabling them with Font Book. In this case they are always fonts I will never use, Korean, Chinese or Arabic etc.
Is this something to be concerned about? I have noticed no problems running the system or in any software, so I just empty the trash and get on with my work.
Any ideas about why this is happening?

 

[SilentPanda]

This is unfortunately (or maybe fortunately) normal.

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.4/en/mh2267.html

That is for 10.4 but it happens in 10.5 also I believe.

 

[davidlv]

Thanks for the link. It is nice to hear that these are temporary files that got stranded somehow, but I have not had any apps crashing (the implied reason in that link), and I am running Leopard with the latest updates. In any case I will just keep on emptying the trash when it happens. Thanks again.