I have found some files on my hard drive in my user folder called manifest.rdf, mimetype, meta.xml and folders called META-INF, Configurations2, cfx.
I am wondering if these belong on my drive, if they are innocent or nefarious. My guess and hope would be the former but I'd be guessing.
Should I leave these things alone?
Thanks.
Those names are part of the internal workings of the OpenDocument Text file format used by LibreOffice and OpenOffice, and supported by many other applications including Microsoft Word. To demonstrate this, I just used TextEdit to create a document and saved it in this format. I then opened Terminal and passed the file to the unzip command:
Many modern file formats, including .docx, are actually lots of files zipped together like this! So, what you've found is probably part of a document you worked on one day, that somehow got broken apart into its individual files. I doubt it would be useful to keep them!
Those names are part of the internal workings of the OpenDocument Text file format used by LibreOffice and OpenOffice, and supported by many other applications including Microsoft Word. To demonstrate this, I just used TextEdit to create a document and saved it in this format. I then opened Terminal and passed the file to the unzip command:
Many modern file formats, including .docx, are actually lots of files zipped together like this! So, what you've found is probably part of a document you worked on one day, that somehow got broken apart into its individual files. I doubt it would be useful to keep them!
Thanks!
manifest.rdf, mimetype, meta.xml... does these belong on my HD?
