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Resumption of Automatic Filesystem Cleaning

Starting next calendar week users of UNIX workstations − this activity does not apply to MS Windows computers − will have their filesystems automatically cleaned.

This means that an automatic process will weekly delete unnecessary files such as temp files, certain caches, etc, and certain SQLlite databases used internally by programs such as browsers will be optimized, the trash will be emptied certain recent-documents lists will be erased and certain internally generated log files will be deleted.

Also to be deleted will be special files that come from other operating systems. For example: folders copied from Windows machines often have a hidden file called "Thumbs.db" in them which is used by Windows but not UNIX.

For a list of file Names you should avoid using, please see Section 5.2 of "UNIX File-names''.

You will recieve a weekly email about this from the system §