Mark Knecht posted on Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:07:46 -0700 as excerpted: > On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 4:49 PM, Doug <dmcgarr...@optonline.net> wrote: >> I have on my kde desktop an icon labelled "Old Firefox Data." I looked >> at the directory it brings up, and I can't see anything useful in it. >> Do I need it for anything, and if so, what?
> I don't know why this would be a KDE issue other than you are > apparently using KDE when it happened but other than maybe links kept > somewhere in this folder I would guess you don't need anything else it. > If I had all the links I was looking for I'd likely hide it somewhere > for a few days, make sure my browser continued to work, and then delete > it. Seconded. When I have questions about the safety of deleting a file/directory, I rename it with some extension, say *.remove or *.2013.0620.remove (the date), and see how things go. Then if I have problems it should be soon enough I'll have an idea what caused them and can rename back and see if they stop. If I don't have any problems for a few days or a week (with at least one reboot or logout/login or whatever) and remember to actually delete it, fine. If I don't remember it then, still no problem... I just do it next time I come across it. (If it's big and I run low on space I'd come across it with filelight or du or whatever when I'm looking at what's using my space. If it's little and/or I don't run low on space, no harm letting it sit there for awhile... until a year or two or five down the road, when I DO actually come across it for some reason, at which point the .remove extension is a clue. =:^) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde-linux mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-linux. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.
