User preference folder names

I see a lot of folders in my user preferences folder with really odd names like "ÙÕ" that are empty. Is this from a virus, corrupt application or what?

Thanks for the feedback. You ought to peruse the Adobe forums at http://www.adobe.com/support/forums/index.html and see if there's anything mentioned there. Good computing.

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Wierd files in user preferences folder

I found several folders in user preferences with names such as:
7ıêê◊8øˇÀ‡†~a|êŸlè¿ö(ø
They all showed nothing in them so I deleted them all, but they have come back again. Is this normal?
TIA

Tried your suggestion and found Photoshop Elements 4.0 created this file in user preferences:
Y‡ê◊8øˇ‘†~a|êŸlè¿ö(øˇ’P
...and opening Photoshop CS2 created this one:
Â@ê◊8øˇﬁ††~a|êŸlè¿ö(øˇﬂ
The applications seem to work OK and I have other Adobe applications as well, but did not open these as well.
Any suggestions on what to do next?
TIA

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Windows 7 Professional, Microsoft Office 2010 - Outlook 2010.

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Home folder name change, cannot see enable the root user option

Hi I am using Mac OS X (10.6.8)..got it from others.. I would like to change the home (small home symbol in finder) folder name. Went through many discussion in apple support. My problem is, I am unable to enable the root user. I went through the following steps: Apple menu -System Preferences- Accounts- authenticated as an administrator account- Login Options- Join- Open Directory Utility- Directory Utility window- administrator account name and password, then clicked OK. After this I can not see option with name Enable root user ( I can see only Active directory, BSD flat file and NIS, LDAPv3, Local). If I click active directory then the edit section will be activated. If I click edit, its showing active directory domain). I can not understand this.
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Here are the instructions from Apple on changing user short name or home directory name. I've used this on a couple of used MacBooks I've bought on eBay. And remember to go into System Preferences>Sharing and change the Computer Name in there.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1428

How to change users home directory home folder name?

Is there a way in Mountain Lion to simply change the name of the home directory home folder name without it throwing off anything else for that particular user?
I read the article about 'Enabling and using the "root" user', but it specifically says for 'Lion' and not 'Mountain Lion'
When I get to step 8 there is no clear place to enter an adminstator account name and password so I can't go any further.
I also did a quick test with a newly created user and after setting some preferences and customizing the desktop, I changed the home directory name and I pretty much lost all my preferences after logging back in. It's as if changing the home directory name in any way shape or form literally wipes out the previous user and you have to start anew.
I don't want to risk changing the home directory name and end up losing essentially my whole user setup, but I really want a different name for my home directory and I don't want anything else to change. Is this possible?
Thanks

Hi Blastic,
I'm trying to do the same thing. I did follow Apple's instructions and while they are easy to follow.....I was unable to rename the folder as described (clicking on it or pressing enter). I did enable root user, I did log out and re-log in as root user.....and I got stopped. I simply could not rename the folder as per Apple's instructions and ther is NOTHING on the internet about it......save for your beacon of light! Thanks for the post. I'm using 13 inch MacBookPro Mid 2010 2.4 GHz, Intel Core 2 Duo, 8GB ram, OS 10.8

Copy preferences to more than one users home folder

hey all
i have up to 800+ users on some of the servers I maintain @ a k-8 school district.
I need to copy new java preferences in to all of there home folders on the server.
I have tried
cp /Users/computerservices/Library/Caches/Java\ Applets/deployment.properties /Users/*/Library/Caches/Java\ Applets/
it seams that you can not use * in a cp destination
from the spike in CPU usage I think it writes the preferences file to the last(alphabetically) user 800 times
my collage professor said that I need a script but I have not had time to get to writing a script
thanks
sam

here is the code for the script I finished on friday
thanks so much for the help Nils
#!/bin/bash
#copy and paste this in to a new vi file and set chmod to 770
#then save it in /bin/
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# prefstick 1.0.1
clear
echo
echo -e "Blank responce at any question will exit program."
echo -e "CapiTalIZatioN and Spelling matters when typing file and folder paths"
echo -e "all y/n questions will take yes, no, Yes, No, Y, N, y, n, or that path that you want."
echo
echo -e "Are your users located in \"/Users/\"?(y/n)\c"
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case $UsrLocQ in
[Yy]*)
UsrLoc="/Users/"
[Nn]*)
echo -e "Where are your home folders locatied? (i.e. /StudentUsers/) \c"
read UsrLoc
if [ "$UsrLoc" = "" ]
then
echo "goodbye"
exit
fi
UsrLoc=$UsrLocQ
echo "goodbye"
exit
esac
echo
echo "List of all users located in "$UsrLoc
ls $UsrLoc
echo -e "What user has the master preference?(short name)\c"
read MasUsr
if [ "$MasUsr" = "" ]
then
echo "goodbye"
exit
fi
echo
echo -e "Do you want the new preferences saved in \""$UsrLoc"*/Library/Preferences/\"?(y/n) \c"
read UsrSubDirQ
case $UsrSubDirQ in
[Yy]*)
UsrSubDir="/Library/Preferences/"
[Nn]*)
echo
echo -e "What is the sub directroy for the preference? (i.e. /Library/Safari/) \c"
read UsrSubDir
if [ "$UsrSubDir" = "" ]
then
echo "goodbye"
exit
fi
UsrSubDir=$UsrSubDirQ
echo "goodbye"
exit
esac
echo
MasPrefDir=$UsrLoc$MasUsr$UsrSubDir
echo " list of all items in "$MasPrefDir
ls $MasPrefDir
echo "What preference/preference folder do you want to copy?(i.e. QuickTime\ Preferences or Explorer)"
echo -e " Spaces reqire \ before them."
read MasPref
if [ "$MasPref" = "" ]
then
echo "goodbye"
exit
fi
echo
echo -e "what file permaissions do you want your Preference to have?(I suggest 666):\c"
read MasPrefChmod
if [ "$MasPrefChmod" = "" ]
then
echo "goodbye"
exit
fi
MasPrefLoc=$MasPrefDir$MasPref
chmod -R $MasPrefChmod $MasPrefLoc
clear
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echo "You want to copy "$MasPref" from "$MasPrefDir
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echo -e "are you ready to do this? (y/n)\c"
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[Yy]*)
clear
echo "here we go"
echo "goodbye"
exit
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do
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$UsrLocShared)
$MasHome)
$UsrLoc"Icon")
$UsrLoc"Network Trash Folder/")
$UsrLoc"Recent Items/")
$UsrLoc"Starting Points/")
$UsrLoc"Temporary Items/")
$UsrLoc"TheFindByContentFolder/")
$UsrLoc"TheVolumeSettingsFolder/")
$UsrLoc"Users/")
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Extremely annoying problem with user folder name in windows 8.1

Here is the thing:
Friend of mine bought the laptop (very strong and expensive asus - republic of gamers) with installed windows 8.1 on it, but after a few days only I bought that computer from him because he didn't need it and he didn't use it at all!
But, his name stayed in the windows. I changed all user accounts names and everything which was possible to be changed, but when i go to C/users his name is still there on folder!
I can say it is very annoying because that laptop cost almost 3.000 USD and I still need to look at someone else's name in my user folder!
I tried to change "ProfileImagePath" in: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList\ .... but after that windows logged in as a temporary profile and I spend another hour to figure out
how to reverse the thing!
How is possible that some so basic and simple things can't be changed at all in newest windows??? Only because some name was entered first it's not possible to be changed ever again???? Seriously?
Not only this problem, there is too many problems with this windows 8.1! Too many! You definitely made the worst thing ever!
I am extremely unhappy and upset with this operative system! I,m cursing the day when i gave so much money for computer with crap called windows 8.1!!!!
Very very angry!!!
(P.S English is not my native language)

Hi,
According to your description, it seems that you have resolve that issue.
Not only this problem, there is too many problems with this windows 8.1! Too many! You definitely made the worst thing ever!
Please let us know what problem did you encounter? Please give us more detailed information in order to provide the further help.
Here is a overall guide for you to know well the Windows 8.1
Windows 8.1: frequently asked questions
No Karen, I didn't resolve the issue.
I asked very simple question how to change something so basic like user folder name in Windows 8.1
You know: "C:/Users/"user name"
All the links you are giving to me doesn't provide any concrete answer to this question. I spent hours and hours googling and researching about this question and only solution which i found is that i need to create completely new user account and delete completely
the old one, just to be able to remove an old name of user folder! Are you kidding me?
How is possible that such a basic thing is so complicated?
Is there any way to change folder user name in any other way because i don't want to create a new user account!
Simple question, but, like always, no any concrete answers - just some empty talks, and totally useless links and SPINNING IN THE CIRCLE all the time without the CONCRETE solution.
As for part of my post which you quoted, and your request for more informations in order to provide me further help, i just gave it to you again. I want to change user folder name. What you don't understand in that question?
UPDATE:
Ok, i came back to edit this post because i have a feeling that maybe you don't understand the question and giving me this link because maybe you simply don't know that when you go to:
Control panel/user accounts/change your account name... and change the name, and after that, when you go to C:/users, the folder with the user name still have an old user name. Which means that any changes in control panel or anywhere else doesn't make any
changes on C:/users/ folder itself!!!!!
In previous windows versions was possible to change it by editing "ProfileImagePath" in:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList\ ....
But when I try to do that in Windows 8.1, when I reboot computer it logs in with some temporary account, so i need to reverse everything to be able to use computer with the real account!
So basically it seems that is absolutely impossible to change user folder name in Windows 8.1, which is simply unbelievable!
I really think i explained very good now.

How to handle user preference which has "_" and " " in the name

Hi Experts,
I have a question how to handle value which has like "_" and "space" etc in user preference.
If setting "a_b-c d", I could not retrieve this because it's escaped in database.
So this code can't get value even though I can set it.
Is there any restriction of name? Is there any documentation how to code user prefernece which has non alphabet and number in the name?
I know it's possible to handle the data like adding escaped data. But I don't think this is the best way to retrieve the data. Because nobody confirm it's not problem in the future.
Could you tell me the best way to get these user preference?
Thanks in advance,
Masaaki Tada
Here is a sample.
<%@ page contentType="text/html;charset=Shift_JIS" %><%@ page language="java" import="com.plumtree.remote.portlet.*, com.plumtree.remote.prc.*, java.util.*" %>
<%
/** * UserInfo - Simple Page * Display User Information*/
// VariablesIPortletContext oPortletContext = null;IPortletRequest oPortletRequest = null;IPortletUser oPortletUser = null;IPortletResponse oPortletResponse = null;IRemoteSession s;IUserManager oUser;
/* Get Portlet Objects */
try{oPortletContext = PortletContextFactory.createPortletContext(request, response);oPortletRequest = oPortletContext.getRequest();oPortletUser = oPortletContext.getUser();oPortletResponse = oPortletContext.getResponse();} catch (Exception e) {oPortletContext = null;oPortletRequest = null;oPortletUser = null;oPortletResponse = null;}
String val = oPortletRequest.getSettingValue( SettingType.User, "a_b-c d" );String hoe = oPortletRequest.getSettingValue( SettingType.User, "abcd" );out.println( "a_b-c d: " + val );out.println( "abcd : " + hoe );
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Plumtree recommends that user preference names have only alphanumeric characters in them (a-z, A-Z, 0-9). Any non-alphanumeric characters will be encoded by the EDK.
I strongly suggest that you change your user pref name to something that's alphanumeric. However, if that is not possible, you can use the following workaround: in the web service editor, enter the encoded name for the user pref. There are several ways to get the encoded name.
One way is to encode the pref manually, yourself. Plumtree uses the %u encoded format: each non alphanumeric character is converted into %uxxxx, where xxxx is the Unicode representation of the character. For all ASCII characters, just look at the ASCII hex chart. For example, character "-" has a hex value of 2d. So, a preference name "jane_pref" would be encoded to "jane%u002dpref", and you'd enter the latter value on the preferences page in the web service editor.
The other way to find out the encoded value is to set a preference programmatically and use the HTTP tunnel tool to look at HTTP traffic between the portal server and remote server. The remote server will be sending a HTTP header to the portal server (the header name will probably be CSP-User-Pref) and inside the header you should see the pref name, encoded with %u. Just copy it out of there and into the web service editor.
Hope this helps,
Jane

Mountain Lion Server - Folder names intermittently change between Upper and Lowercase names on some user's iMacs

Hi,
Sorry if I'm posting in the wrong group, but I couldn't find a Mountain Lion server specific group.
I have a new Mac Mini Server running 10.5.8 that serves Mac only users. The Mac Mini has a 4tb Promise Pegasus RAID attached via thunderbolt. Today, some of the users on the network reported that a folder on the RAID was quickly alternating displaying it's sub-folders as all capital letters then upper and lowercase - I witnessed this and it happened 2-3 times a second. I have run a propogate permissions fix on the folder, then the whole volume from within Server App and also copied the contents of this folder to my Mac, then I deleted the original from the server and created a brand new folder with the correct name and copied the contents back.
The problem still persists. Server App does not report any issues and other folders don't exhibit this behaviour. I've looked to see if there are any weird characters in folder names that would do this. The volume is shared via AFP only (SMB and WEBdav are off).
Any ideas as to what could be going on?
Thanks in advance!

Hi.
I solved this problem. I fixed permissions on the Mac's that the users were using to access the server and this has fixed the problem. The server folder giving the problems had many nested folders totalling over 5000 items inside and this seemed to corrupt the permissions on the user's macs.
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Get the root folder name once user will upload any files to subfolder with in this root folder using sharepoint designer WF??

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Weird files in the User/Library/Preferences folder

Yesterday I noticed that my Preferences folder contains some very weird files. Actually, they're empty folders. I'd like to know if they are supposed to be there. If not, how did they get there and what should I do with them?
All in all there are about 20 folders and they are all empty.
Here are a few examples of the names of the folders:
˝Äê}]Løˇ€††{·|ê}_|è¿úL
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Some versions of Photoshop have been known to create such things. Don't remember under what conditions, I think I saw someone say their strange folders appeared when using Photoshop with a either an Epson scanner or printer. At any rate you can toss them without doing any harm.
Francine
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My user icon has disappeared in my system preferences folder, So i'm unable to edit the accounts.
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When logging on to Windows 7 user gets a second mapped drive to the users home folder

Morning,
I'm working through an issue we've discovered whilst trialing Windows 7. Our environment is setup as follows.
Domain Controllers are Windows Server 2003
Clients are Windows XP and Windows 7
Windows XP and Windows 7 Clients are in seperate OU's
All Windows XP Group Policies apply to Windows XP And Windows 7 clients, Windows 7 policies are then applied to Windows 7 clients after
Windows 7 policies are setup such that any setting defined in a Windows XP Group policy is left unconfigured in the Windows 7 Group policy and only new Windows 7 settings have been set in Windows 7 Group Policies.
We have users home folders mapped in their Account Directory account setting and set to H:\   to connect to
\\domainname\dfs\home\username
In addition we also as a fail safe map the drive via a login script using net use
This has worked fine for years in windows XP, if Active Directory failed to map the drive for any reason then the login script would then map the home drive.
In Windows 7 we have noticed a curious error. We found after a period of a couple of weeks we suddenly started getting a new drive mapped. This was identical to the H:\ drive mapping but was instead under drive Z:\. In other words, the
users home folder is mapped twice on h:\ and z:\. This is not affecting any of the Windows XP users.
I have gone through several logic reasons to ascertain why this has happened with the following findings.
1. Originally we thought the error appeared when we tried out mapping the home drive using the mapped drives functionality new in Windows 7 group policy under preferences > windows settings > drive maps. However, after forcing it to delete the
Z:\ drive using this functionality we only succeeded in removing it with a group policy present to do it. As soon as we removed that group policy the Z:\ drive came back
2. Secondly i thought the reason we would be getting a z:\ drive when we haven't specified it anywhere is because active directory is trying to map to the H:\ Drive but it is already present therefore in Windows 7 it tries to map to a different drive.
Using Windows logic it tries the highest letter first which is unlikely to be in use i.e. z:\. This makes sense because our logon script uses a net use h:\ command to map the drive and i believe by default these are set to perisistent. Therefore
the next time the user logs on H:\ is already mapped so the logic in Active Directory accounts maps the drive to Z:\ instead hence we end up with two mapped home drives. To test this i altered the login script to set the drive maps to
non persistent using persistent:no. The logic here was that when the user logged off the drive would become unmapped so that when Active Directory tried to map the drive it would be able to use H:\. Unfortunately this was not the case and
Z:\ remains.
3. Here is where i resolve the issue but i don't know why and is the bit i need answering. If i go into my account on Active Directory and go to Profile and set the home folder drive letter to another letter i.e. change from H:\ to U:\,
i get prompted to set full control etc and apply. I then set the drive back from U:\ to H:\, again i am prompted for setting full control which i accept.
NOW when i login i no longer receive a Z:\ drive and only get an H:\ drive. YAY, thats what i want, however, i do not understand why this is the case. At first i thought it might be something in the active directory logic when i login to an XP
machine and then login to a windows 7 machine.  IF you bear in mind that although i get a new profile in Windows 7 i still retain the same home folder setting. However, after logging on an XP machine logging off then logging
on a Windows 7 machine i still didn't get the Z:\ drive back.
I have tried creating a new user that ONLY receives our Windows 7 Group Policies and still they receive both an H:\ and a Z:\ drive which rules out the Windows XP policies conflicting with the Windows 7 policies.
Does anyone have any ideas why i would get a second drive mapped to Z:\ logging into Windows 7 on a Windows Server 2003 domain?
Can anyone explain in more detail exactly how the Active Directory functionality works when you specify a connect to Drive letter for a users home folder?
My current workaround is simply to add a net use command to remove the Z:\ drive. I do not want to use Mapped Network drives using the new policy settings in Windows 7 RSAT because we have already found issues with it.
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We had the exact same issue happen to us. No issue on Windows XP but Windows 7 mapped two home drives (F and Z). F was mapped during the login script and Z was being mapped by some unknown reason.
We use Netapp for our storage and home drives and use a feature called CIFS Home Drive Mapping. This essentially maps a user to a folder not available through normal CIFS methods causing AD to error when setting the home drive. To get around this we use
dsquery and dsmod to modify this attribute in the user account. This is the command we used...
dsquery user -name %UserNameX% | dsmod user -hmdrv F -hmdir \\filer\$username$
Notice there is no ":" after the F
We determined the root causewas the value for the
homeDrive attributefor the user account was set to "F" instead of "F:"
When we updated our users to reference "F:" instead of "F" in their user, this problem was resolved.
Use LDP or some other method to verify that the homeDrive attribute is set to "F:" (or any other letter) or you will have this issue.

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