Can delete any "Unix Executable File"?

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Can delete any "Unix Executable File"?

I just noticed there are a couple (each 4K) Unix Executable Files in my Application Support folder...is it ok to delete these? (I don't know where they came from, and aren't they PC files by definition?-->maybe came as some kind of email attachment) Thanks

P.S. Their names are 1019967 and 2826981, neither gives any useful information in the Info box.

iMac G5 Mac OS X (10.4.3) 1.8 GHz, 768MB RAM, DSL

Posted on Dec 17, 2005 7:56 AM

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bdmarsha

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Dec 17, 2005 8:53 AM in response to Oliver Lu

I cannot tell you what these are, but it is unlikely that email attachments would end up in Application Support. It is more likely that they are related to an application, perhaps license files that were intended to be invisible. Unix executable files are very common on your Mac because it is a Unix system, although the Finder's identification of these as Unix executables may be in error.

If you really want to get rid of them, just move them to a new folder called, perhaps, Unused Junk to Trash. Then, if nothing bad happens, you could delete them in the future.

bd

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