wkresources in Trash

I'm seeing the same thing.
Is started appearing after installing Office

Same problem here after installing Office 2011.

Any ideas?

Can I jump in and ask what are the maintenance that should be carried out?, I have no idea

Get Onyx.
I will take care of all your maintenance.
Link below:
http://www.titanium.free.fr/download.php?sid=4658b6a0f336896639f65011613f7e8a

Just to make your life simpler: Select Automation in Onyx.
It will take care most of your Maintenance needs.

I hope this answer your question

The new messenger does this also as well as spitting out the messenger cache on each reboot, its really annoying.

but what is the maintenance that should be carried out. I have no clue when it comes to it all.

If you let your Mac sleep it will do the maintenance anyway, you can use Onyx to run scripts, daily weekly and monthly, but you can run these from terminal also. At 12:30am roughly your logfile is cleared each day at at 3:15am the daily script runs but this will run as soon as you wake your Mac from sleep in the morning.

I would not worry as there s nothing to do really just make sure you repair permissions after installs of new Apple and some other software like Flash, and check your drive is verified.

As to Office being a pain with this wkresource in the trash, just delete it, it does no harm, myself I'm waiting for service pack one for more stability, but I do not need all the new features anyway so for now office 2008 will do.

It's coming from WLMKernel.framework, part of Office. It creates the file /private/var/folders/xx/yy/TemporaryItems//wkresources

where xx and yy are specific to your machine. Pretty classy Microsoft, with the "//".

Anyway, it gets created every time a Microsoft Office app gets launched. Looks like all the crap that goes into .../TemporaryItems gets cleaned up when you quit the app, but wkresources doesn't get deleted.

So it shows up in your trash as Recovered Files.

BTW, DTrace is pretty cool, thanks Apple!

The workaround would be to run:
$ cd /private/var/folders; find . -name wkresources 2>/dev/null
...see what it prints out and then:
$ rm what-got-printed-out
from the terminal every time you quit an Office app, but I'd recommend not doing that because it's easy to typo.

I guess that's the same reason messenger 8 makes such a mess of your trash bin then, but that removes your messenger cache as well as a few other files, so each time you fire up you lose all your friends pictures, nice one Microsoft.

I have also had problems with "wkresources" in the trash after a reboot. I also had a few "recovered" temporary folders from MS Office show up in the trash last night but it was too late to do any research on it. This is very frustrating that Microsoft didn't notice this issue during their test cycle. There are enough users here having the problem that it certainly should have shown up in their testing.

**** right you are. I get the same issue and thought of googling it and got here. Now that I know what it's all about, no worries. I think that at least we all have to admit that at least for this time Microsoft did a great job. Keeping in mind the fact that they built it hand in hand with Apple hehe... Thanks for everyone.

BB623 wrote:
Everytime I reboot this repopulates in the trash. How do I stop?
BB623 wrote:
Everytime I reboot this repopulates in the trash. How do I stop?

The only way to get rid of it is to do a SUDO Command in Terminal. Launch terminal type: sudo rm -rf then drag the file and drop it right after the sudo command you typed in, press return and then it will ask you for your system password, enter the password press return and it will be gone for good.

This is what it looks like: sudo rm -rf wkresources press return, enter system password then it will be gone!

Note: make sure after sudo, rm and -rf there is a space: example but with out the under score:
sudo rm_-rf

by now means a computer programmer, am i to understand then that wkresources being stored w/in a recovered folder in my trash is the result of sloppy fatfinger programming by microsoft?

needlesstosay, i'm having the same problem at start-up.