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Yes, I said "&–v‰è“c". In restoring a couple of Preferences with Time Machine I found a folder, inside the Preferences folder, called "&–v‰è“c". The folder didn't contain anything...well, nothing visible.
Any idea what this is?
ryck
"What Were Once Vices Are Now Habits" The Doobie Brothers
iMac (Retina 5K, 27", 2020), 3.8 GHz 8 Core Intel Core i7, 8GB RAM, 2667 MHz DDR4
OS Sonoma 14.4.1
Canon Pixma TR 8520 Printer
Epson Perfection V500 Photo Scanner c/w VueScan software
TM on 1TB LaCie USB-C
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Do you use an Epson scanner and/or Photoshop or Photoshop Elements?
We've had a number of cases over the years in which some combination of the above created empty folders in ~/Library/Preferences with nonsense names.
dkmarsh—member, FineTunedMac Co-op Board of Directors
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Do you use an Epson scanner and/or Photoshop or Photoshop Elements?
Yes, on both counts. I have an Epson scanner and I have Photoshop Elements. Thanks. For a moment there I thought I was going to have to study ancient runes.
ryck
"What Were Once Vices Are Now Habits" The Doobie Brothers
iMac (Retina 5K, 27", 2020), 3.8 GHz 8 Core Intel Core i7, 8GB RAM, 2667 MHz DDR4
OS Sonoma 14.4.1
Canon Pixma TR 8520 Printer
Epson Perfection V500 Photo Scanner c/w VueScan software
TM on 1TB LaCie USB-C
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Yep, this is a well-known bug with Epson's scanner and printer driver software. It's been long-standing for years, and Epson's never fixed it.
If you want to know the technical details, when the Epson scanner or printer driver software runs, it creates temporary files to spool print jobs or save scanner data. These really ought to be stored in the temporary directory in OS X, but they're not. Worse, the software doesn't use the correct character encoding for the filenames of the files, so the filenames end up looking like gibberish.
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