Folders in Trash

That did not seem a problem but bothers me a lot, with the snow leopard whenever
restart the machine, appears in the trash a folder titled "Recovered
FILES" ... Can I secure empty trash and nothing ... always when booting the folder appears.Inside there is some folders and files "var / tmp / tmp." followed a series of numbers and letters ...
Someone knows something about?

Welcome to Apple Discussions.
You need to find out which application is causing this, before you can do anything about it.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.6/en/8982.html
-mj

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Message was edited by: John Lippincott

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