Strange Files On Macintosh HD - Solved [Q from meeting]

2011-11-01 Thread Pete Smith
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

Re: Strange Files On Macintosh HD - Solved [Q from meeting]

2011-11-01 Thread cm
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

Re: Strange Files On Macintosh HD - Solved [Q from meeting]

2011-11-01 Thread Daniel Kerr
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