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   Andrew to grinch   
   Re: Can you help with these odd files in   
   26 Aug 20 13:49:02   
   
   From: Doug@hyperspace.vogon.gov   
      
   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.   
      
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