"MerpAD RDC" file in Trash "Recovered Files" after every startup.

Does anyone know what this "MerpAD RDC" file is? It shows up in the Recovered Files in my Trash every time I reboot / startup. It's not causing any trouble, just curious as to what it is.

I have the same issue. I don't seem to see it everytime, but almost. I am going to try to keep better track of it. I have seen several different files show up here. Mostly this one.

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Com.apple.Preview and mf_refimg folders in trash (recovered files) lately

Hi,
Lately I am seeing a recovered files folder in the trash with a bunch of Preview folders titled "com.apple.Preview8909_2118585411 " and the like and also some titled "mf_refimg.29" and the like. All have pictures in them. The Preview folder has a bunch, if not all of the pics I've looked at with Preview lately (maybe yesterday's batch from the camera) and the mf_refimg folders have a graphic I used with Disc Cover, a CD/DVD cover app. Disc Cover is working fine as is Preview. No strange behavior noted in either app other than the OS thinking that Preview still has a pic open after I have closed that pic, which has been a sporadic Preview bug for awhile. All the pics appear to be copies of pics that are happily in the folders they started out in, elsewhere on my computer.
Why is it doing this? I have recently checked the drive using Disk Utility from my install CDs and nothing has been found to be wrong. I had a kernal panic a few days ago but Disk Utility has checked things since and found nothing wrong. (The kernal panic was due to my trying to startup from an external Firewire drive that had 10.4.8 on it. That disk has since been erased and reformatted with no system on it, just the driver so it will appear on my desktop when connected. I haven't used that drive since checking my Powerbook disk with Disk Utility.)
Thanks for any help.
Cheers,
John L
Message was edited by: John Lippincott

Just to add a bit to what Malcolm said--many programs keep temporary files. In Preview's case you'll notice that there is a "Revert" item in the File menu, so if you make changes and then change your mind it can recover the the original. The temp files for Preview are stored in this hidden directory:
"/private/var/tmp/folders.501/TemporaryItems"
Programs are supposed to clean up after themselves when they quit, invisibly getting rid of their temp files, but some programs fail to do this. Preview USED to but no longer does (one of a number of things that got goofed up in Preview when they re-wrote it). When that happens the system itself will do the clean-up next time you restart, and place the temp files into the Recovered Items folder which it deposits in the Trash. Another Apple program that fails to delete its temp files when it quits is SoundTrack Pro (and its garbage can be very large files). Since programs are supposed to automatically get rid of this stuff, when they don't the system assumes the program crashed and that you might want the things back, so puts them in a folder in the Trash so you can sort through and decide if you need or can use them.
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Francine
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Trash recovered files

hey
iv browsed a few 'recovered files' discussions but none of them really solved my general query
I'm just wondering what users do with their recovered files you find in he trash, normally these are files with a random string of letters and numbers which inevitably end up just being deleted (mostly through laziness).
but what do you other uses do? is there a simple way of restoring them? are they important?
cheeeeeeers
Louis

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.4/en/mh2267.html

Format over catalog file, tried to recover file but now corrupt?!

I recently performed a format of my hard drive. When doing this, I did not back up my catalog file from photoshop elements(I have pse 8.0). I backed up everything else, and I do have all of the original full size photo files from my hard drive, ~11,000 image files which are now all put back to their exact same location on the hard drive as before the format. Horrible mistake on my part not to back this up, but I thought this info was stored in the individual photo files itself, but I know now that this info was in the catalog file that I more than likely have lost.
First off, following the format elements 8.0 was installed and all of my photos were migrated into elements(all thumbnails visible in organizer with no problems). Elements and the organizer worked perfectly fine, besides the fact that I had lost all of my tag and album info that was stored in the catalog file.
My husband purchased some file recovery software following the format of the hard drive to try and recover the catalog database file from the hard drive. The recovery software did find the file and was able to recover it from the partition of the hard drive that had been formatted over. Following the recovery of the file, he tried to move the file manually into the folder C:\program data\adobe\elements organizer\catalogs\my catalogs\. Doing this replaced the new catalog file that had been recently created by photoshops elements following the reformat with the one that was recovered by the recovery software. Next, he opened up Photoshop elements and tried to launch the organizer. Following this, we received the following message from organizer: “the catalog could not be opened, it is either corrupt, or the version is out of date and cannot be updated”. We then clicked on ok and then tried to hit the repair button, which it then told me that the catalog file could not be repaired. We also tried the File>Catalog> Open command in elements organizer to open the new catalog file and this gave me the same exact error message and same results.
We have also tried to run the psedbtool found on the web on the catalog file that was recovered by the recovery software. Unfortunately, the file is unreadable by the tool and the tool gives me the following message when trying to use the tool on the recovered catalog file: "can't open catalog database: file is encrypted or is not a database". I also tried the -csv file and -printVolumeTable options of the tool and it gives me the same message. Because I am getting this error message, it does not seem as if this tool will be able to help me with the recovered catalog database file.
Is my catalog file that I have recovered corrupt and unusable, or is there some way to get this file to work?
The recovery software I used if from Pareto Logic named "Data Recovery Pro". Could the problem be with the recovery software and maybe a different recovery software may do a better job of recovering the file?
Thnks for any help!

To make the story short, have you backed up your photos? If the answer is yes then why can't you create a new catalog and import the photos to this new catalog?
To create a new catalog, the basic process is:
1) Open the Organizer and click on File
2) Click Catalog
3) click New
4) Type a name for the new catalog
5) Click OK
Now it is a question of importing the photos to this new catalog. the basic process is as follows:
1) Open the Organizer and Click File
2) Click Get Photos & Videos
3) Click From Files and Folders
4) click "down-arrow" icon to choose the folder
5) CTRL+ Click on your photos to import (or CTRL + A to select all photos)
6) click Get Media
7) Click Show All to view your photos
Hope this gets you started. Your formatted hard drive will not let you get your old files so you are stuck. You should always make a habit to back-up your data on a flash drive because they are very robust and can be stored safely away from the computer you are working on. Your your machines own Hard Disk as a back-up store is definitively not a good strategy.

Error message after every startup

Every time after turning on my iMac, I get the "Error"-Message:
(beautyful Moiré)
Which is in English:
You switched off your computer due to a problem.
If you want to open the Apps, that were open before switching-off, click "Open" (Öffnen)
Otherwise the login will continue in XX seconds.
I should emphasize, that all is working fine – but the message is a little bit boring.
Does anybody has an idea, what pref(s) keep(s) the false information and can be trashed without causing any bad consequences?

These instructions must be carried out as an administrator. If you have only one user account, you are the administrator.
Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad and start typing the name.
In the Console window, select
DIAGNOSTIC AND USAGE INFORMATION ▹ System Diagnostic Reports
(not Diagnostic and Usage Messages) from the log list on the left. If you don't see that list, select
View ▹ Show Log List
from the menu bar.
There is a disclosure triangle to the left of the list item. If the triangle is pointing to the right, click it so that it points down. You'll see a list of reports. A panic report has a name that begins with "Kernel" and ends in ".panic". Select the most recent one. The contents of the report will appear on the right. Use copy and paste to post the entire contents—the text, not a screenshot.
If you don't see any reports listed, but you know there was a panic, you may have chosen Diagnostic and Usage Messages from the log list. Choose DIAGNOSTIC AND USAGE INFORMATION instead.
In the interest of privacy, I suggest that, before posting, you edit out the “Anonymous UUID,” a long string of letters, numbers, and dashes in the header of the report, if it’s present (it may not be.)
Please don’t post other kinds of diagnostic report.
I know the report is long, maybe several hundred lines. Please post all of it anyway.

Different volume after every startup Windows 8

Hi,
Lenovo U310 - i5 - 4GB - 32 GB SSD - 500GB HD - Creative X-FI surround 5.1 - upgraded from W7 to W8 pro
I expect at startup that the volume of my soundcard will have the same value since the last shutdown.
However, everytime I start this laptop (Windows 8) the volume shows a totally different value!
Does anybody know the reason of this, and better, how to prevent this?
Regards,
Jim

Hi ishaan,
Thx for the response.
I know the X-FI causes this problem (I would add 'of course' ) that's why I added this unit to the list of hardware I'm using.
But Creative is very vague about this issue so maybe the Lenovo community can hand me some hints?
Since I upgraded the U310 from Windows 7 Home premium to Windows 8 pro I'm not sure how the volume behaved during W7.

Recovered files folder in Trash - Yosemite

After installing Yosemite on both my mid 2011 Mac Mini and my late 2013 MBP Retina 13 I have noticed that every time I start either computer there is a folder called "Recovered files" in the Trash with the file "MerpAD Database Daemon" inside the Recovered files folder. I delete it but with each restart it shows up again. Any ideas where these files are coming from. Thank you for your assistance.

This is an update to my original post. I found a fix for the Recovered Files folder showing up in Trash. It was from the Microsoft Community Forum and it worked on my system running Yosemite 10.10.2 and Office 2011 14.4.8
Open Finder > select the GO drop down > select Go To Folder > then type in this command exactly as is: /Library/Application Support/Microsoft/MERP2.0
and select GO.
This opens MERP2.0 > double click Microsoft Error Reporting > select Preferences from the drop down next to the Apple menu > Uncheck "Enable Office Error Reporting". Close all the dialog boxes and restart the computer. The consensus from those posting to the MS forum was that they had to restart twice and this was the case for me as well. The first restart still produced the Recovered Files folder in Trash. On the second restart the Trash was empty. Hope this helps.

After OS X reboot - temp file in Trash

Please bear with me if this has been asked before concerning Dreamweaver CS4 (I saw an older post relevant to Dreamweaver CS3, but there was no real resolution).
Situation:
I purchased, downloaded and installed Dreamweaver CS4 onto my Mac Pro (early 2008) desktop running OS X (10.5.8). The installation, registration and loading of Dreamweaver was successful and proceeded as expected. I then rebooted my machine and noticed that the Trash was not empty as it had been prior to reboot. I checked the trash and found a 'Recovered Files' folder containing a file named '_xx41a7.TMP' inside. I placed this file on the Desktop and double-clicked it which resulted in Dreamweaver loading to a blank document workspace.
Note - it is my understanding that OS X moves temp files that were not deleted when a program either crashes or does not quit properly.
Attempted procedures:
In order to troubleshoot my thought that Dreamweaver was the program in question, I performed a clean install of OS X (including updating it to 10.5.8 and installing all updates via Software Update). I then installed just Dreamweaver > launched and then quit Dreamweaver > rebooted. This resulted in the same named file being placed in the Trash about 2 seconds after reaching the Desktop.
I tried a third test where I restored to the most recent Time Machine backup prior to performing the original Dreamweaver install and then installed Dreamweaver along with the additional software options during the install process in case a component was needed for the temp file to be handled correctly. Unfortunately, the result was the same with the '_xx41a7.TMP' file being placed in the Trash after reboot.
System Specs:
Mac Pro desktop (early 2008)
OS X (10.5.8) with all updates
Current installed software:
Photoshop CS4
Illustrator CS4
Bridge CS4
Exchange CS4
Office 2008 (Home and Student)
iLife '09
iWork '09
Aperture 2
Painter X.1
SketchBook Pro
TechTool Deluxe (AppleCare provided)
Stuff It Expander 2009
World Book 2009
I was hoping that there is a setting in preferences or elsewhere that can be set to prevent the constant need to delete this file each time I boot the machine if Dreamweaver has been loaded (this does not happen if Dreamweaver is not loaded prior to reboot).
Note - I am new to Dreamweaver, but old to Photoshop and Illustrator.
Thanks in advance for any help offered.

Randy,
Thanks for the reply and I apologize for not responding sooner.
I did in fact close down all programs before shutdown or reboot (have been for quite a few years now). I also performed a search for said file using the basic searchlight function in OS X, but I have not gone to the trouble of running a terminal command to show all files in finder and I suspect this particular file is normally hidden.
I also looked under 'Preferences/Preview in Browser' and saw that the 'Use temporary files..' was already deselected by default. I tried enabling the option by placing a check mark and then relaunching Dreamweaver and then closing the program, but after reboot the same result with the temp file in Trash. I then tried disabling the option and relaunching Dreamweaver and then closing, but again after reboot the same.
Of note: I have upon three occasions had an empty 'Entourage' folder in the 'Trash/Recovered Files' folder as well. These were times when I had launched Entourage prior to launching Dreamweaver and then closing both before rebooting. Entourage never displayed this behaviour prior to installing Dreamweaver CS4. Not sure what to make of it.
I have yet to hear back from Adobe Support where I placed a case three days ago via the Adobe Support page.
Obviously not a huge deal, but it would seem that this particular piece of software either has a bug or has uncovered a bug in OS X or Office 2008. I tend to lean towards it being Dreamweaver as all my other software never displayed this type of behavior from the first day each was originally installed (all about as old as the original release dates and all patched with the latest updates available).
Does anyone have an idea what function the '_xx41a7.TMP' file serves? It is always the same name, so I am thinking it serves a specific purpose for Dreamweaver.
One other item that may or may not be relevant. I ran a test where I left the temp file in the trash and rebooted and then relaunched Dreamweaver, which resulted in Dreamweaver taking at least 30 seconds to fully load (the application frame loaded in the usual 1 - 2 seconds, but the content of all toolbars, panels and welcome screen took the 30 seconds or more to load). I ran the test a second time and the time improved slightly, but still around 25 seconds total.
After the above testing, I deleted the files (Recovered Files & Recovered Files #1 - both of which had a copy of the same '_xx41a7.TMP' file). This returned the launch time to the usual 5 -7 seconds to load program including welcome screen content.
BTW - I mistakenly listed 'Exchange CS4' in the software list in opening post, which should be 'Extension Manager CS4' (just for accuracy).

The same recovered files in the trash, every morning

I'm accustomed to Mac OS X's practice of placing potentially important files in a "Recovered Files" folder in the Trash after a reboot if, say, an application crashes. But I'm getting annoyed by my computer's habit of placing a set of files in such a folder every single time it's shut down. The files all look like remnants of an Asian-language font set. Here are the most recent names:
#Junggothic.dfontATS_493169727169
#Junggothic.dfontATS_17722080525333
#Junggothic.dfontATS_3922-125658874
#Shinmyoungjo.dfontATS_493169492902
#Shinmyoungjo.dfontATS_17722080452720
#Shinmyoungjo.dfontATS_3922-126354157
#Taegraphic.dfontATS_493168710633
#Taegraphic.dfontATS_17722080055722
#Taegraphic.dfontATS_3922-128251752
I do not use any Asian-language input methods whatsoever, nor do I visit Asian-language websites with any regularity. But I can confirm that all three of these fonts:
#Junggothic.dfont
#Shinmyoungjo.dfont
#Taegraphic.dfont
... are present in ~/Library/Fonts. Does anyone else also have them, and if so do you know what program may have installed them? Is the hash symbol supposed to be present in the name? I'm tempted just to trash them, but I'd prefer not to if they're regularly used by websites, etc.
Thanks!

Since they aren't installed by OS X or MS Office, then they were installed by some third-party software you installed.
The files in the Trash are actually cache files generated by the ATS = means either Apple or Adobe Type System. Probably the former. Most likely these result from the nightly cleanup scripts tossing unneeded cache files from the Type System.
If you don't use these fonts then track them down and remove them. If they aren't in one of the three Fonts folders normally used, then they could be Adobe fonts stored elsewhere on your computer. Use a utility like Easy Find - VersionTracker or MacUpdate - to search for them.

Recovered files in trash

Ever since I update to Yosemite 10.10.1 when I only shut my computer down and turn it back on in the morning there is a file that says recovered files in my trash do I need to delete these since they are in my trash? Also I notice sometimes around 600pm at night a folder pops up says Nov folder and select ok but then it on desktop i do not know what this is and just move to trash.I do not have a screen shot of this it only happens occasionally please let me know if anyone has these same issue since the update and what to do to fix them.
Thank you

The recovered items folder can be safely ignored: http://support.apple.com/kb/TA23371?viewlocale=en_US
(Often these are cache files from Microsoft Office. If you indeed have this installed, the issue can be solved: see last post in this topic.)

Using the recovered files folder in the Trash for Flash CS5 files

I'm creating a complex animation (hand drawing every two frames on a Cintiq) in Flash CS5 and, despite saving, lost the day's work upon my Mac freezing - over 300 drawings, just gone. The recovered files folder contains /tmp and .dat files, and I've found no guidance online as what to do with these. Please help!

Those files in the recovered files folder happen when an APP crashes with unwritten data/files.
It's not very likely those tmp or dat files will be of any use, but if critical get HexEdit and open those files for a look...
http://hexedit.sourceforge.net/
We should work on why the crashes & loses are happening.

I recently found a folder in my trash that I never put in there labeled "recovered files" its full of xpku files. What are those? Can I delete them?! Help!

I'm nervous to delete them! I don't know if the system needs these files to run. Don't answer using "computery" words, I stink at computers, so just a yes or no answer will do. Can I delete these xpku files?

The Recovered Files folder contains temporary files that were used by applications and system processes, which were not properly released and discarded when the application was terminated. This can happen if a program unexpectedly quits, or more commonly if the system crashes in the middle of your work.

Numbers generates recovered files on bootup

Does anyone else experience this?
Whenever I have used Numbers '09, the next time I do a cold bootup (power down, cold startup) in the trash I find recovered files, always the same one. Like this actual example:
Trash
} Recovered files (folder)
} com.apple.iWork.Numbers183_SFED_2960572041
} style-thumbail-Basic.tiff
Always the file "style-thumbail-Basic.tiff". Pages also always produces a similar error; I don't just now recall the file it generates.
Does anyone else experience this? Yes I've reported it to Apple. Yes I've repaired permissions. Yes I've checked for disk errors with Disk Utility.
It doesn't really seem to be a problem, other than the fact that there are recovered files means some kind of error has occurred.
Ernest Unrau
Morden, Manitoba
CANADA

I identified these 'recovered files' linked to Numbers.
They are the thumbnails of recents documents which are no longer available.
On my machine, I sat the number of recents documents to twenty.
On every morning, during the startup process, the preferences file is replace by a script which I wrote, by a clean one designed to get rid of possible corruption.
As the stored thumbnails are no longer matching the 'recent documents' described in the installed prefs file, they are dropped and I retrieve them in the trash.
So, don't worry.
The only surprising feature is that they appear as 'Recovered'
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) samedi 22 mai 2010 10:36:32

Recovered files in trash after sleeping

Upgraded to Tiger 10.4.11 from Panther about 4 weeks ago using Erase & Install, then restoring apps, files, etc. with Migration Assistant from a clone. Flawless & painless--whew! However, I'm now having one minor but annoying issue--after playing Burning Monkey Solitaire, quitting, logging out & putting Mac to sleep, find recovered files in trash on next log in, specifically a couple of BMS text files. The Freeverse support folks are still working with me on this issue (suggesting doing a Secure Empty Trash, which didn't prevent the files from returning). I'm posting here, however, because today there was also an iPhoto folder (empty) in the Recovered files folder in the Trash. Any ideas on why this may be happening and how to stop it? I've used iPhoto since the OS upgrade without this occurring and, so far at least, no other apps (Word, Excel, other games, etc.) have been leaving orphan files on quit/sleep/logout that wind up recovered in the trash.
As I said, it's a minor annoyance, but hope it's not a symptom of something more serious. Thanks!

Thanks, but that's not quite what's happening here . . . first, neither Burning Monkey nor iPhoto unexpectedly quit--always were quit normally. Second, recovered files folder shows up after sleeping, not just after restarting.

Irritating: Recovered Files Folder in Trash after every boot

I have a clean installation of Snow Leopard on my 2009 iMac. The computer came with Leopard. But I gave uncle Steve $30 and got the Snow Leopard disc.
I did a clean installation; did not use any time machine recovery or reuse any old data. Just CLEAN.
Now, after each shut down and restart cycle, the Trash can has crumbled paper. This really bothers me. I thought Macs suppose to work correctly. I did not delete anything and nothing should be in that Trash. If OS deletes something, it should take care of it behind the curtain. I don't want to see trash in the Trash can.
So I opened the Trash and see what's inside it. Every time, it is a folder called Recovered Files, and it has 0 bytes in it.
I have no other software installed on the computer. All latest updates applied as of Mar 27.
Any ideas?

Exact same problem here as Alex and Bishboria.
I'm always cleaning my Trash, whatever I reboot, shutdown or wake-up the computer from sleep mode, the previously empty trash get an empty "Recovered Files" folder...
This happens since Snow Leopard upgrade. Subsequent versions of Snow 10.6.x didn't correct this behavior.
Same wish than Alex: if the system is performing some auto-cleaning at each restart cycle, fine, I'm glad that the system takes care of itself and of my computer. But don't show me this empty folder... Let me handle MY trash! So that I know when I forget to empty it.
It should goes to another post, but this "bug" belongs to the (long?) list of Snow's glitches: longer time to boot, slugishness response from internal harddrive. Should I go back to Leopard which was so responsive? The brand new full-64bits-Kernel isn't it supposed to be faster, stronger, more efficient than the 32bits one?!

"MerpAD RDC" file in Trash "Recovered Files" after every startup.

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