http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.4/en/mh2267.html
says:
"One or more Recovered Files folder may appear in your Trash after
restarting your computer. The recovered files are temporary files used
by Mac OS X applications. Usually temporary files are deleted by an
application when it no longer needs them. If an application quits
unexpectedly, the temporary files may not get deleted by the
application. When you restart your computer, Mac OS X moves these
temporary files to the Trash."
The file was created in -[GrowlApplicationBridge
_launchGrowlIfInstalledWithRegistrationDictionary:]
It should have been opened by Growl and passed on to the
GrowlPropertyListFilePathway method
- [GrowlPropertyListFilePathway application: openFile:], which contains:
/*GrowlApplicationBridge 0.6 communicates registration to Growl by
* writing a dictionary file to the temporary items folder, then
* opening the file with GrowlHelperApp.
*we need to delete these, lest we fill up the user's disk or (on
Tiger)
* surprise him with a 'Recovered items' folder in his Trash.
*/
if ([filename isSubpathOf:NSTemporaryDirectory()]) //assume we got
here from GAB
[[NSFileManager defaultManager] removeFileAtPath:filename
handler:nil];
if (regDict) {
//Register this app using the indicated dictionary
[self registerApplicationWithDictionary:regDict];
[regDict release];
retVal = YES;
}
The possibilities as I see it: Either the file is never being opened, -
[NSString isSubpathOf:] is failing, or the file isn't being removed
properly.
This has been a longstanding but intermittant problem reported over
the last 3 years at least; I have an email dating 8/9/06 reporting
it. This is not to say that we have ignored the problem but rather to
point out that it has not found an easy solution and has been very
difficult for us Growl developers to pinpoint.
-Evan
On Aug 29, 2009, at 5:46 PM, Laurent Daudelin wrote:
> I just logged out and logged back in and sure enough, I had a
> "Recovered Files" folder in the trash, which did contain a few of
> these files. Too bad I didn't think more about them and emptied the
> trash. I'll check out one of these file content next time.
>
>
>
>
> -Laurent.
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> On Aug 29, 2009, at 15:44 , Dickster wrote:
>
>> Out of curiosity, having pulled the Recovered files folder out of the
>> Trash, rather than deleting it, I restarted my computer again, and
>> ANOTHER Recovered files folder appeared in my Trash, with these file
>> names:
>>
>> Growl-99-0E4AB322-ED62-4AF3-AD9E-42E75A9AA18E.growlRegDict
>> Growl-262-BEEEB92D-9B6A-4140-8B7B-6CF4193899F3.growlRegDict
>> Growl-260-D0D8F2F5-B1B8-4297-8504-C6F51181E165.growlRegDict
>> Growl-248-F0BE914F-BE59-49C6-A780-6E46C34D2FE2.growlRegDict
>>
>> I had NOT visited System Preferences -> Growl since turning it off,
>> just posted my prior response using Firefox. This tells me that
>> having Growl installed, but turned OFF seems to create files that
>> aren't deleted, and they end up as Recovered files. Maybe you guys
>> can duplicate this and figure out a "solution". Good Luck.
>
>
> >
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