Blank Files appearing in Hard Drive??
I have been noticing These blank files apearing recently. Plain Text, Zero KB files In my main harddrive. I narrowed it down to my Pro Tools program. They generate each time I open Protools. Can anyone explain why and what this is? just worried it could potentialy be a bad thing?
Ok Its doing it again with no external drives attached. and this comes after restarting system. Its creating files when protools 8.0 is launched. so i copied some console info:
4/8/13 8:17:13 PM [0x0-0xe00e].com.apple.finder[136] System version is 10.5.8
4/8/13 8:17:20 PM mdworker[74] CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData(): Old-style plist parser: missing semicolon in dictionary.
4/8/13 8:21:15 PM mdworker[74] CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData(): Old-style plist parser: missing semicolon in dictionary.
4/8/13 8:24:59 PM mdworker[74] CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData(): Old-style plist parser: missing semicolon in dictionary.
4/8/13 8:30:28 PM mdworker[74] CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData(): Old-style plist parser: missing semicolon in dictionary.
4/8/13 9:16:44 PM mdworker[253] CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData(): Old-style plist parser: missing semicolon in dictionary.
4/8/13 9:55:07 PM mdworker[289] CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData(): Old-style plist parser: missing semicolon in dictionary.
4/8/13 9:59:07 PM mdworker[289] CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData(): Old-style plist parser: missing semicolon in dictionary.
4/8/13 10:02:03 PM mdworker[289] CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData(): Old-style plist parser: missing semicolon in dictionary.
4/8/13 10:16:43 PM mdworker[412] CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData(): Old-style plist parser: missing semicolon in dictionary.
4/8/13 10:22:52 PM mdworker[419] CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData(): Old-style plist parser: missing semicolon in dictionary.
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4/9/13 12:26:09 AM com.apple.loginwindow[27] Shutdown NOW!
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