Can't get rid of these .plists

When I run Disk Warrior, it finds four .plist files that it wants me to trash.
So I trash them.
But a few days later they mysteriously return. Can anyone help me get rid of these things permanently? This drives me bonkers.
Many thanks,
Harry.
Here are two examples:
com.utterlus.octodecimo.plist
com.ratiess.datasoftware.plist.

harry3232007 wrote:
com.utterlus.octodecimo.plist
com.ratiess.datasoftware.plist.
Plists are preferences files; a .plist is re-created when the app runs. I think you need to find out what apps creates these .plists. With names like that, I'd expect "octodecimo" and "datasoftware" to be name of apps or toolkits, and "utterlus" and "ratiess" to be the names of their developers. But I've never heard of such developers, nor such apps. This could simply mean that I'm ignorant (which indeed I am). On the other hand… If nothing else, I should look into it out of sheer curiosity.

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