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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.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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