For the last several months, I have had odd file names showing up on my hard drive. I click on the file to open it and "text edit" opens to a blank page. I delete these files but within a few days they are back again. Does anyone know where these are coming from and how to make them stop appearing?
Examples of the names are: %90, %90%E0%FF%BF7', %A0%E0%FF%BF7', and p%E0%FF%BF7', they all say "zero KB" under size, and "plain text" under kind.
I attempted to post a pic of my HD below but am not sure if it will work.
Thanks,
Dan
/Users/Dan/Desktop/Picture 1.jpg
iMac,
Mac OS X (10.5.5),
2 GHz Intel Core Duo, 2 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM
ONTOPIC: Open /Applications/Utilities/Terminal, and copy the blue text in. DON'T PRESS ENTER YET.
ls -aleO@
Now, type a space after the @ sign, and drag one of the files in from Finder into the Terminal. Press enter, and paste the results of the command up here.
By "3rd Party Software" do u mean anything not made by Apple? Because I have the usual assortment of applications/software installed. No idea what a "haxie" is, but I've never made any mods to my system folder. I stay out of that thing! Way beyond my abilities, lol
O, wow. That's bizarre. I have never seen anything like that either... I'm used to seeing something along the lines of
*-rw-r--r--@ 1 Me staff - 1258429 Dec 2 22:33 /Users/Me/Desktop/hubbard_talk.pdf*
* com.apple.FinderInfo 32*
Any idea what that could be? Especially the last line,
d14-69-141-73:~ ?
Go into Disk Utility, and do both a Verify Disk and Repair Permissions. The last line of the output of that command you posted is beyond anything I have seen. Run that command again.