Originally Posted By: artie505
What I don't get is why the file replicated itself….

To make it more curious, it appears that other files are also replicating themselves.

Originally Posted By: artie505
...have you opened it to see what's in it?

I opened one with TextEdit and it said:


fJHrQnNdmElH2bXFFhU46ZGWwjDgfpV6sEa31vlxps
+m
+QVKtdIVJSg/VdGE6Gm/lhAzK9L7EiFZKP6wZhS4QQ5oZRWvVbgYG1wzza9l/8n62qOv3Wk05VXXVg1og2tmGCPuIa2J
+n5okwKa/OOy1/UODWwPATPlFW7JXdB1b
+gbVWOnbEVUVC0diWrIrf7iDF7BmfYdRmthrpowqL5c0aeV/QygydFpfoUysdni37qDmmBUPW8Cux
+PhUfzFtIORuqerqRP5PSbNxrBSxplQ9KXjSCxh0Hk3MI7M0+GYjETTSpa6X7hr90
+YrEwrKP+Fhml1glEAw0F/GLVEAmZPA==

NOTE: I put the carriage returns in the above information from TextEdit because it pasted as one long line headed somewhere out the right side of the FTM screen.

Originally Posted By: artie505
...then drag a file into Terminal, and its path will appear in the command, after which you hit "return"

The path does appear but, as soon as I hit 'return' Terminal adds: Permission Denied, and the delete does not occur.

Last edited by ryck; 07/12/15 11:05 PM.
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