[dba-Tech] Can someone please tell me what all these directories are for?

Jason Strickland jason at purplecone.com
Mon Dec 3 10:23:45 CST 2012


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On Dec 3, 2012 11:23 AM, "Arthur Fuller" <fuller.artful at gmail.com> wrote:

> They all have unpronounceable names such as 9e7e915c9b8a76ffbbb13a67ca740a.
> And I have quite a lot of them, well less than a dozen so that is hardly a
> lot; OK, let's settle on Several, which is more than a few but fewer than a
> dozen. My initial guess is that they were created by various apps that I
> installed, but I have no evidence for this conjecture, or perhaps it's a
> hypothesis... I'm advancing in years and can no longer remember the
> difference between these terms.
>
> Can I safely nuke all these directories? Not that I need the space they
> occupy, I've still almost a TB of space left, but I just wonder what they
> are doing there and what purpose they serve. Is this yet another plot
> launched by some genius female in Russia or China or Brazil?
>
> Arthur
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