On 08/10/09 17:13, Rowan Berkeley wrote: <snip /> > > You're right, Dan; mine had tildes, and were actually marked as backup > copies. I think what happens is that it makes backups if the things are > left on the desktop overnight, which these two (unusually for me) were. > But it goes on listing them in the Desktop folder, and hides them. >
The ~ suffix is pretty standard in Unix/Linux for temporary/backup files and several tools create them automatically by default: gedit, Vi & Bluefish I know about. You can usually configure these apps to not create temporary files at all or to remove them on close. In gedit for example Under the Edit->Preferences menu and the Editor Tab you'll see a "Create a backup copy of files before saving" check box. :-) Cheers Al -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
