[marsbt]

Hi all,

I'm (still) using Tiger and just noticed some wierd folders which I am sure I didn't create. Does anyone know anything about these? Please shed some light so that if they are not needed, I can delete them.

seb:/ me$ ls -l fa300/
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 2 me admin 68 Apr 12 2007 -06ffffffc64c0006-c481020000
drwxr-xr-x 2 me admin 68 Apr 12 2007 -06ffffffc64c0006-c481025459

seb:/ me$ ls -al faf00/
total 16
drwxr-xr-x 2 me admin 68 Apr 12 2007 -0affffff8329000a-0000000000
drwxr-xr-x 2 me admin 68 Apr 12 2007 -0affffff8329000a-0000000004
drwxr-xr-x 2 me admin 68 Apr 12 2007 -0affffff8329000a-c481020000
drwxr-xr-x 6 me admin 204 Apr 13 2007 .
drwxrwxr-t 36 root admin 1326 Nov 12 18:33 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 me admin 6148 Aug 12 00:52 .DS_Store

seb:/ me$ ls -al faf00/-0affffff8329000a-c481020000/
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 2 me admin 68 Apr 12 2007 .
drwxr-xr-x 6 me admin 204 Apr 13 2007 ..

[reader50]

Looks to me like some program created temp folders where they don't belong. The 3rd listing is of an empty folder. If "ls -al" only returns "." and ".." then the folder is empty. Both of those are special reference links, and not file entries. Darwin will supply both for every folder.

[marsbt]

I understand that the last one is an empty folder showing the current and parent directory links. I added its listing to indicate that the folders in those weird folders are all empty.

If they are just temp folders, then deleting them shouldn't cause any system problems. Or will it?

[Tomchu]

Nope. They're not standard to a Mac OS X system. I would say go ahead and delete. :-P