I have noted in looking in my files via Dolphin that several files such as; sedf7joMm; sedTWjX8W show up and cannot be opened by the usual applications. They do not have an extension designation. All these files seem to the the same size of l.6 GiB. A window pops up when trying to open them that presents various applications that might be tried, but I can find none that open these files. They are preceeded by an icon that has what looks like 4 windows with the right lower corner turned up with a small yellow locked lock symbol. In trying to find out something about them, the only info that turns up for a "sed" search is that: "sed-a non-interactive text editor" that has something to do with large complicated files.
What are these files, can they be safely deleted and can they be prevented from being stored in the file system? Thanks for any insight on this perplexing matter. I am currently using KWheezy distro
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So I assume you haven't made / copied these files. But you never said where they are. Are they in your Home folder (/home/yourname), the system temp (/tmp)? Probably you can delete them, the name suggests they have been created automatically, and they are too big for most system files. The real question is, where did they come from?
On Monday, September 8, 2014 21:56 SGT, "Hermie" <dryes@users.sf.net> wrote:
I have noted in looking in my files via Dolphin that several files such as; sedf7joMm; sedTWjX8W show up and cannot be opened by the usual applications. They do not have an extension designation. All these files seem to the the same size of l.6 GiB. A window pops up when trying to open them that presents various applications that might be tried, but I
can find none that open these files. They are preceeded by an icon that has what looks like 4 windows with the right lower corner turned up with a small yellow locked lock symbol. In trying to find out something about them, the only info that turns up for a "sed" search is that: "sed-a non-interactive text editor" that has something to do with large complicated files.
What are these files, can they be safely deleted and can they be prevented from being stored in the file system? Thanks for any insight on this perplexing matter. I am currently using KWheezy distro
Can you see the time stamp on them, when were they created? I don't know what would create such files, never seen there likes on any of my systems before. The sed command should not by creating such large files without your intervention.
On Monday, September 8, 2014 21:56 SGT, "Hermie" <dryes@users.sf.net> wrote:
I have noted in looking in my files via Dolphin that several files such as; sedf7joMm; sedTWjX8W show up and cannot be opened by the usual applications. They do not have an extension designation. All these files seem to the the same size of l.6 GiB. A window pops up when trying to open them that presents various applications that might be tried, but I can find none that open these files. They are preceeded by an icon that has what looks like 4 win
dows with the right lower corner turned up with a small yellow locked lock symbol. In trying to find out something about them, the only info that turns up for a "sed" search is that: "sed-a non-interactive text editor" that has something to do with large complicated files.
What are these files, can they be safely deleted and can they be prevented from being stored in the file system? Thanks for any insight on this perplexing matter. I am currently using KWheezy distro
So I assume you haven't made / copied these files. But you never said where they are. Are they in your Home folder (/home/yourname), the system temp (/tmp)? Probably you can delete them, the name suggests they have been created automatically, and they are too big for most system files. The real question is, where did they come from?
Can you see the time stamp on them, when were they created? I don't know what would create such files, never seen there likes on any of my systems before. The sed command should not by creating such large files without your intervention.
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I have not looked for these "sed" files in several weeks and can not now find them even with a computer search. I believe that they were in my (/home/yourname) downloads folder. The only thing that I can think of is that I recently restarted my computer (which I rarely do) after a KWheezy update. Perhaps they automatically were the result of OS or application updates or installs and with restart automatically deleted themselves. Thank you very much for your reply. For now I will not worry about them since they seem to automatically or can manualy be deleted without any apparent consequences.
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Definetely not from an apt upgrade. My best guess is they are temporary files for some kind of download. I use Firefox, but i've never seen it create temp files with "sed" like that.
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I have noted in looking in my files via Dolphin that several files such as; sedf7joMm; sedTWjX8W show up and cannot be opened by the usual applications. They do not have an extension designation. All these files seem to the the same size of l.6 GiB. A window pops up when trying to open them that presents various applications that might be tried, but I can find none that open these files. They are preceeded by an icon that has what looks like 4 windows with the right lower corner turned up with a small yellow locked lock symbol. In trying to find out something about them, the only info that turns up for a "sed" search is that: "sed-a non-interactive text editor" that has something to do with large complicated files.
What are these files, can they be safely deleted and can they be prevented from being stored in the file system? Thanks for any insight on this perplexing matter. I am currently using KWheezy distro
So I assume you haven't made / copied these files. But you never said where they are. Are they in your Home folder (/home/yourname), the system temp (/tmp)? Probably you can delete them, the name suggests they have been created automatically, and they are too big for most system files. The real question is, where did they come from?
On Monday, September 8, 2014 21:56 SGT, "Hermie" <dryes@users.sf.net> wrote:
Can you see the time stamp on them, when were they created? I don't know what would create such files, never seen there likes on any of my systems before. The sed command should not by creating such large files without your intervention.
On Monday, September 8, 2014 21:56 SGT, "Hermie" <dryes@users.sf.net> wrote:
So I assume you haven't made / copied these files. But you never said where they are. Are they in your Home folder (/home/yourname), the system temp (/tmp)? Probably you can delete them, the name suggests they have been created automatically, and they are too big for most system files. The real question is, where did they come from?
Can you see the time stamp on them, when were they created? I don't know what would create such files, never seen there likes on any of my systems before. The sed command should not by creating such large files without your intervention.
I have not looked for these "sed" files in several weeks and can not now find them even with a computer search. I believe that they were in my (/home/yourname) downloads folder. The only thing that I can think of is that I recently restarted my computer (which I rarely do) after a KWheezy update. Perhaps they automatically were the result of OS or application updates or installs and with restart automatically deleted themselves. Thank you very much for your reply. For now I will not worry about them since they seem to automatically or can manualy be deleted without any apparent consequences.
Definetely not from an apt upgrade. My best guess is they are temporary files for some kind of download. I use Firefox, but i've never seen it create temp files with "sed" like that.