Black exec file flashed - what does it mean?

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Black exec file flashed - what does it mean?

Hello!

This is first it has happened to me. Was was rotating big image file (3.5 MB, 2500 × 3504, scanned, saved from external HDD) and closed it, having it save the new position (it was on sideways previously). And suddenly, there was black file with some random numbers and letters I couldn't see quick enough to figure out if it was related to the picture. Only saw it likely had word "exec" in it.

So, could it have been related to the big image? I tried again to rotate it and nothing happened.

Is it normal to have black files with name "exec" in it appear suddenly on desktop, then disappear few seconds later? I can't seem to find good enough articles about how "exec" files act in Mac.

OS X El Capitan (10.11.6)

Posted on Sep 28, 2016 12:16 PM

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K Shaffer

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Sep 29, 2016 11:53 AM in response to Iuuwerbeh

You may find a few clues about the occurrence, from near the time of its happening

by looking into the Console utility log files. There also may be a crash log about it.

Sounds like something that may have generated a crash log or kernel log file; as

the result of running out of system resources, or other combined issue/failure.

Perhaps there may be a way to find a copy of that report or screen information.

Not sure how; there are persons who occasion here who probably know, though.

Sorry to not be of much exacting help...! 🙂

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Iuuwerbeh Author

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Sep 29, 2016 11:54 AM in response to K Shaffer

Actually, this was helpful. 🙂 I totally forgot Mac also had windows version of task manager that allows to see processes! I can't see what it was as I forgot exact time and there were too many processes, but I now have tools for next time. Thanks! 🙂

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