Strange hidden file on Desktop, 200MB?

[Mal]

I just accidentally did a "Get Info" on my empty desktop (I never store anything there), and was surprised to see that it the folder was 219.2 MB in size. Since there was nothing visible, I did a sudo ls -al ~/Desktop to find out what was there, and got the following files:

drwxr-xr-x@  3 jonathan  staff        102 Jun 25  2009 $RECYCLE.BIN
drwx------+  6 jonathan  staff        204 Apr 30 12:35 .
drwxr-xr-x+ 59 jonathan  staff       2006 Apr 26 16:16 ..
-rw-------@  1 jonathan  admin       6148 Apr 30 12:20 .DS_Store
-rw-r--r--@  1 jonathan  staff  219170815 Mar 31  2009 .QT-fb8c-c5f7a316-bffff54c-00
-rw-r--r--   1 jonathan  staff          0 Mar 19  2009 .localized

Obviously, I'm most concerned about the big one, the .QT-fb8c-c5f7a316-bffff54c-00 that's over 200MB in size. Has anyone else ever seen something like this? I'm going to delete it if I don't hear a "No, don't ever delete that!" from someone soon, as I've never seen it before, but I wanted to get some input on what might be the reason for it.

jW

 

[yellow]

Something associated with Quicktime?

file .QT-fb8c-c5f7a316-bffff54c-00

Might reveal a little info, like type. Also:

strings .QT-fb8c-c5f7a316-bffff54c-00

 

[Mal]

Well, I guess I jumped the gun, because I already deleted it. I did "more" on it, and got a long string of nonsense. I also gave it execute permissions and tried to execute it (risky I know), but it said it couldn't execute the binary file.

jW

 

[-aggie-]

Well, I guess I jumped the gun, because I already deleted it. I did "more" on it, and got a long string of nonsense. I also gave it execute permissions and tried to execute it (risky I know), but it said it couldn't execute the binary file.

jW

I couldn't find anything by googling, so I think you're safe. Could be a leftover from a quicktime file, but who knows.