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   Carlos E.R. to grinch   
   Re: Can you help with these odd files in   
   26 Aug 20 20:43:20   
   
   From: robin_listas@es.invalid   
      
   On 26/08/2020 15.19, grinch wrote:   
   > 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.   
      
   AFAIK, the option was removed years ago. There is a systemd file that   
   can be modified, though.   
      
      
      
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   Cheers, Carlos.   
      
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