Strange Files On Macintosh HD - Solved [Q from meeting]
G'day all. I asked a question at the meeting this evening which stumped the experts. So when I got home I tried google followed by an experiment and this is what transpired. First off, I located some odd document files on my Macintosh HD. The names consisted of a combination of '%' letters and numbers. For example the shortest file name was %A5 whilst the longest was g%E4%B9%E4%C7%E4%C8%E4%CA%E4%C8%E4X%E4%E4%E4%E3?%E33%E33%E3?%E3%D7%E3M%E4%EB%E4%F7%E43%E5%D4%E5%A8%E5L%E5L%E5L%E5%91%E4d%E5%BE%E5%F5%E5%F5%E5f%E6%E6!%E6%E0%E5%E0%E5%D0%E5%C8%E5%B4%E5%8D%E5y%E5F%E5F%E5F%E5F%E5a%E5e%E5a%E5e%E5. When opening using TextEdit, there was a whole series of various operations that appeared to have been logged. They all appeared to be repeats of this: kernel size = 5 (range 3..15) volume thresh= 5. t1 =15 gray step= 256.00 gray diff thresh = 3840. resolution = 200 scale= 100 effective res= 200 Tdustnscratch: level = 2 Tdustnscratch: start time: Mon Sep 19 19:52:48 2011 Tdustnscratch: begin detect: Mon Sep 19 19:52:48 2011 Tdustnscratch:begin applyMedianFilter: Mon Sep 19 19:52:48 2011 Tdustnscratch: end detect: Mon Sep 19 19:52:48 2011 Tdustnscratch: begin reconstruct: Mon Sep 19 19:52:48 2011 Only the dates were different. Anyway, to cut a long story short, I found information in Apple Support Communities whereby it appears to be related to my HP all-in-one scanner/printer. https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2337802?start=0tstart=0 So I did a little experiment. I trashed the files and then scanned a couple of book covers for my Bento library as I usually do. Lo and behold, a new file named %FF%FF%8B, appeared on the Macintosh HD. The only 'problem' left is that the file was created 20 minutes ago but, even though I have shut down HP Scan and turned the scanner off, the file still says Fetching... in the Last Opened area of the preview (I'm using columns in Finder) and TextEdit won't open it. I've replaced all the trashed files but that didn't help so I've trashed 'em all again and the new file is still fetching... - 25 minutes now. So I've trashed it too and now it's no longer fetching!! I am no longer worried about the files. So that's me happy now and off to bed. Cheers all, Pete Smith iMac 2.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo 4GB 800 MHz DDR2 SDRAM 750GB Hdrive OS X 10.6.8 -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: Strange Files On Macintosh HD - Solved [Q from meeting]
Well done Pete! I must say that HP seems to have a penchant for writing noxious, intrusive software. I had a HP driver that managed to install a kernel module. Every time I updated software I would get two warnings about the module until I managed to uninstall module and remove the driver. If a native Apple version of the driver exists and it meets your needs, it might be a better choice. Cheers, Carlo On 01/11/2011, at 22:34 , Pete Smith wrote: G'day all. I asked a question at the meeting this evening which stumped the experts. So when I got home I tried google followed by an experiment and this is what transpired. First off, I located some odd document files on my Macintosh HD. The names consisted of a combination of '%' letters and numbers. For example the shortest file name was %A5 whilst the longest was g%E4%B9%E4%C7%E4%C8%E4%CA%E4%C8%E4X%E4%E4%E4%E3?%E33%E33%E3?%E3%D7%E3M%E4%EB%E4%F7%E43%E5%D4%E5%A8%E5L%E5L%E5L%E5%91%E4d%E5%BE%E5%F5%E5%F5%E5f%E6%E6!%E6%E0%E5%E0%E5%D0%E5%C8%E5%B4%E5%8D%E5y%E5F%E5F%E5F%E5F%E5a%E5e%E5a%E5e%E5. When opening using TextEdit, there was a whole series of various operations that appeared to have been logged. They all appeared to be repeats of this: kernel size = 5 (range 3..15) volume thresh= 5. t1 =15 gray step= 256.00 gray diff thresh = 3840. resolution = 200 scale= 100 effective res= 200 Tdustnscratch: level = 2 Tdustnscratch: start time:Mon Sep 19 19:52:48 2011 Tdustnscratch: begin detect:Mon Sep 19 19:52:48 2011 Tdustnscratch:begin applyMedianFilter:Mon Sep 19 19:52:48 2011 Tdustnscratch: end detect:Mon Sep 19 19:52:48 2011 Tdustnscratch: begin reconstruct:Mon Sep 19 19:52:48 2011 Only the dates were different. Anyway, to cut a long story short, I found information in Apple Support Communities whereby it appears to be related to my HP all-in-one scanner/printer. https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2337802?start=0tstart=0 So I did a little experiment. I trashed the files and then scanned a couple of book covers for my Bento library as I usually do. Lo and behold, a new file named %FF%FF%8B, appeared on the Macintosh HD. The only 'problem' left is that the file was created 20 minutes ago but, even though I have shut down HP Scan and turned the scanner off, the file still says Fetching... in the Last Opened area of the preview (I'm using columns in Finder) and TextEdit won't open it. I've replaced all the trashed files but that didn't help so I've trashed 'em all again and the new file is still fetching... - 25 minutes now. So I've trashed it too and now it's no longer fetching!! I am no longer worried about the files. So that's me happy now and off to bed. Cheers all, Pete Smith iMac 2.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo 4GB 800 MHz DDR2 SDRAM 750GB Hdrive OS X 10.6.8 -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: Strange Files On Macintosh HD - Solved [Q from meeting]
Adobe and HP can both be known to do this. Some of Adobe's software used to do the same thing (don't think it does it as much anymore),...but it used to create folders with names like *$#*EIFHSDF_$*$ - 5million times! You'd have a Preferences folder with 10 million items of which 95% was all like that, which you'd chuck. And it would do it again and again! Til they (Adobe) finally corrected the issue. I honestly must admit to absolutely detesting HP printers. After a lot of bad run ins with their printers, their drivers, their support (I'm sorry sir, your clients printer is out of warranty., Um,..no it's not, I sold it to them 1 month ago and it's broken down. I have the invoice I generated for them, AND the invoice from my wholesaler. Now unless it's sat in their warehouse for 12 months before I bought it,..it's under warranty! And it needs to be fixed. That happened on at least 3 different occasions!). Bundle that with lots of other issues people I know have had with their printers,..and I avoid them like the plague! lol. I'm sure lots of people have no worries at all with them,..but yeh. I'm have a lot more success with Epson, Brother and Canon,..so they become my preference of choice. :) Just my 5cents worth. Glad you got it sorted Pete. :o) And sorry I missed the meeting. I think I finally got home close to about 9pm after my last client,..lol. Kind regards Daniel --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: daniel AT macwizardry.com.au Web: http://www.macwizardry.com.au **For everything Macintosh** On 01/11/2011, at 11:23 PM, cm wrote: Well done Pete! I must say that HP seems to have a penchant for writing noxious, intrusive software. I had a HP driver that managed to install a kernel module. Every time I updated software I would get two warnings about the module until I managed to uninstall module and remove the driver. If a native Apple version of the driver exists and it meets your needs, it might be a better choice. Cheers, Carlo On 01/11/2011, at 22:34 , Pete Smith wrote: G'day all. I asked a question at the meeting this evening which stumped the experts. So when I got home I tried google followed by an experiment and this is what transpired. First off, I located some odd document files on my Macintosh HD. The names consisted of a combination of '%' letters and numbers. For example the shortest file name was %A5 whilst the longest was g%E4%B9%E4%C7%E4%C8%E4%CA%E4%C8%E4X%E4%E4%E4%E3?%E33%E33%E3?%E3%D7%E3M%E4%EB%E4%F7%E43%E5%D4%E5%A8%E5L%E5L%E5L%E5%91%E4d%E5%BE%E5%F5%E5%F5%E5f%E6%E6!%E6%E0%E5%E0%E5%D0%E5%C8%E5%B4%E5%8D%E5y%E5F%E5F%E5F%E5F%E5a%E5e%E5a%E5e%E5. When opening using TextEdit, there was a whole series of various operations that appeared to have been logged. They all appeared to be repeats of this: kernel size = 5 (range 3..15) volume thresh= 5. t1 =15 gray step= 256.00 gray diff thresh = 3840. resolution = 200 scale= 100 effective res= 200 Tdustnscratch: level = 2 Tdustnscratch: start time: Mon Sep 19 19:52:48 2011 Tdustnscratch: begin detect: Mon Sep 19 19:52:48 2011 Tdustnscratch:begin applyMedianFilter: Mon Sep 19 19:52:48 2011 Tdustnscratch: end detect: Mon Sep 19 19:52:48 2011 Tdustnscratch: begin reconstruct: Mon Sep 19 19:52:48 2011 Only the dates were different. Anyway, to cut a long story short, I found information in Apple Support Communities whereby it appears to be related to my HP all-in-one scanner/printer. https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2337802?start=0tstart=0 So I did a little experiment. I trashed the files and then scanned a couple of book covers for my Bento library as I usually do. Lo and behold, a new file named %FF%FF%8B, appeared on the Macintosh HD. The only 'problem' left is that the file was created 20 minutes ago but, even though I have shut down HP Scan and turned the scanner off, the file still says Fetching... in the Last Opened area of the preview (I'm using columns in Finder) and TextEdit won't open it. I've replaced all the trashed files but that didn't help so I've trashed 'em all again and the new file is still fetching... - 25 minutes now. So I've trashed it too and now it's no longer fetching!! I am no longer worried about the files. So that's me happy now and off to bed. Cheers all, Pete Smith iMac 2.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo 4GB 800 MHz DDR2 SDRAM 750GB Hdrive OS X 10.6.8 -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives -
