Question on strange folder in /home

I noticed today that I had a folder in /home named pdf-document and have never seen that before. Interesting part is ownership was root:nobody and perms was 777 so anyone has r,w,x access to that folder. Anyways curious if anyone knows what package would have created this folder?

skymt wrote:
shen wrote:well pacman seems to think it can't determine ownership of a directory...
The workaround I've seen suggested is to list all files and directories managed by pacman, then grep for the one you want:
pacman -Ql | grep ' /home/pdf-document'
I don't think that lists directories either.
What about :
find /var/lib/pacman/local/ -name files | xargs grep home/pdf-document/$

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