Thank you Neil From: Neil Houghton <n...@possumology.com> Reply-To: WAMUG Mailing List <wamug@wamug.org.au> Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 10:04:54 +0800 To: WAMUG Mailing List <wamug@wamug.org.au> Subject: Re: wkresources
Hi Michael, Google is your friend ;o) It seems that this is currently a ³feature² of Office 2011 there is some discussion of the issue here: <http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=12522158&tstart=0> <http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=12522158&tstart=0> I haven¹t read the whole thread, but it is suggested: > It's coming from WLMKernel.framework, part of Office. It creates the file > /private/var/folders/xx/yy/TemporaryItems//wkresources > > where xx and yy are specific to your machine. Pretty classy Microsoft, with > the "//". > > Anyway, it gets created every time a Microsoft Office app gets launched. Looks > like all the crap that goes into .../TemporaryItems gets cleaned up when you > quit the app, but wkresources doesn't get deleted. > > So it shows up in your trash as Recovered Files. It doesn¹t seem to be a problem for anyone (apart from the WTF factor!) Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 23/11/10 9:43 AM, Michael Hawkins at michael.hawk...@mjhawkins.com.au wrote: > I installed OS 10.6.5 last week, combo update. > > On the same day, after updating Microsoft Office 2004, I installed Office > 2011. > > Before installing each of the updates, I backed up, repaired permissions, > restarted, repaired permissions again, installed the update, restarted, > repaired permissions again. > > I went through that process first with the update to 10.6.5 and then when > installing Office 2011. > > Office 2004 is still installed and will remain until I work out if Outlook > 2011 will import the 3 different identities I had created in Entourage. > > Now, each time I restart or startup the computer, trash contains an item > wkresources which is a 197kb unix executable file. > > The computer seems to be running ok. Repairing permissions makes no > difference. Need I be concerned? > > Thank you, > > Michael Hawkins > MacBook Pro 17" > 2.4 Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo > 4GB 667 Mhz DDR2 SDRAM > > > > > > -- 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> > Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au> > -- 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> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au> -- 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> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au>
