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 = 5.0000 t1 = 15 gray step = 256.00 gray diff thresh = 3840.0000 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=0&tstart=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>
