LOTS of invisible files on my desktop??

michaelsanford

michaelsanford

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I was looking through folders in the terminal and noticed that in my ~/Desktop folder there are TONNES of files, each one I've opened before (documentsm jpegs, etc) with a ".bin" suffix. They're also visible in stuff like the XNap listing (~/desktop is my DL folder) but not the save as dialogue, or any Finder or Cocoa file dialogue boxes for that matter...

Also other files like
Toast Help idx.1.bin
Toast FireWire Support.1.bin
Minutes 14 Nov.doc.bin (OLD document from months ago...)

The funny thing is they're not prefixed by a period, but they're hidden nonetheless. Also they're all 0k.

What's going on? I never noticed this before in OS X! Virus.

(I've got NAV with auto-protect and filesaver if that's interfering with some middle-layer process causing the creation of these files...?)
 
yeah, OS X has lots of invisible files. You can see most of them with TinkerTool (and other types utilities that allow viewing invisible files). IMHO these are invisible to keep you from messing with them if you don't know what you're doing. If these are old files (long gone) then probably useless leftovers that you can just delete
 
No they're not special files for the Finder, or else they'd be prefixed with a period. Also, some of them are of documents, some of Toast installation, etc. They're not Finder files...that's what bothers me hehe.
 
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