pp> all the 10-digit sets are dirs, the rest are files of some sort... Are pp> these really still needed, or just abandoned and for some reason pp> forgotten, These take some diskspace, so I rather get rid off these... I pp> know if I have stored something here temporarily, but does my system pp> need these possibly or can I safely just delete these ? Great question. I thought the cron job(s) (setup by SuSE) was suppose to be deleting everything in the /tmp directory. I have the similar files, guess I should go look at that cron job :-) Everything in the /tmp directory is suppose to be really temporary, so I would say it is okay to get rid of them. I'd be interested in knowing more about the files/directories in /tmp. I looked at one of the numeric directories and there was a hidden directory, .qt, and below that was a file qtrc and another hidden directory .qtrc.lock. The contents of the qtrc file was: [General] useXft=true Thank you. -- __________________________ DJ mailto: linux_programmer@hotmail.com