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|    grinch to Andrew    |
|    Re: Can you help with these odd files in    |
|    26 Aug 20 14:19:52    |
      From: grinch@somewhere.com              On 26/08/2020 12:49, Andrew wrote:       > grinch wrote:       >> On 26/08/2020 09:43, grinch wrote:       >>>       >>>       >>> I am seeing lots of these files in my /tmp       >>>       >>> /tmp/.org.chromium.Chromium.XXXXX.       >>>       >>> Google tells me that they are a bug in Chromium which I don't have       >>> installed. Also it google mentions a programme called electron which       >>> I also don't have installed       >>>       >>> They are soon removed but it is annoying that they exist in the first       >>> place.       >>>       >>> Any ideas please ?       >>       >> Further detective work on my part has found it is Skype that creates       >> them. If I delete them and then stop the KDE auto-start on Skype no       >> new files.       >>       >> There was a Skype icon in one of the nested subfolders which pointed       >> the way forward.       >>       >> The files creation time is the same as my starting time of my Linux       >> box to within a minute.       >>       >> If I re enable auto-start Skype they appear with the creation time of       >> my new boot.       >>       >> So I now know what, but now need to work out how stop this.       >       > I clear /tmp on every boot. There's a setting in YaST somewhere which       > does this, unfortunately a quick search has not come up with the       > setting. Whatever the setting is, it works under Leap 15.1.              Bleachbit does a similar job, but I will investigate the yast option       thanks for the tip.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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