On Feb 10, 2016 14:46, "John Jason Jordan" <[email protected]> wrote:
> I spoke too soon. I was away for a couple of hours and when I returned
> the file was back.

1. Delete the file and replace it with a 0-byte file.  Change ownership to
root so your user can no longer modify it:
$> chown root:root /path/to/file.

Keep an eye on it to see if the ownership permissions change or it grows in
size again.  Look at the system logs to see if any apps or kernel log an
error because they could no longer write to it.

2.  Delete the file and keep an eye on Internet usage for a download
spike.  If your router doesn't have the ability to see that info, you can
probably keep an eye in the total amount of traffic received in the network
info returned by ifconfig.  Write down or copy & paste that value and
compare it with the same output later.  That will tell you if it's a result
of syncing over the network.  I think canonical has some cloud sync
functionality built in, or used to anyway.
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