Note: In the Preferences folder there are some peculiarly-named folders, all of which are empty.
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4ó‰èrb
ç‰èrb (3 of these)
îë‰èrb (2 of these)
ú¨‰èrb (3 of these)
I mention these in case they are a source of odd behaviour.
That is hard drive directory corruption. Run disk utility and verify the disk. There may be actual data damage that cannot be repaired without a reinstall.
I routinely delte stuff like that. An empty folder, in particular, with a name like that is most likely a meaningless artifact.
That's kinda scary!
I'll keep your comment in mind, but over the years I've found any number of oddly named items (I can't say whether they were files, folders, or some and some.) in ~/Library/Preferences after restarting, and I've trashed them with no repercussions.
Is there some particular aspect of ryck's items that flags them?
