'Recovered Files'

K1LLSW1TCH

K1LLSW1TCH

K1LLSW1TCH

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Well, as the title states, every so often I'm finding my trash can to have the icon denoting wether there's an item inside. I look in the trash to find that there's a folder called 'Recovered Files' inside with one or two weird files. I think that this only happens when the Macbook I'm using has ran out of charge, the files appear in the trash upon the insertion of a power cable.

Can anybody just clear up for me what they are and what I should be doing with them? Currently I'm just removing them permanently. Cheers. :)
 
They are just temporary files that would have been deleted by an application when it no longer needs them. If the application crashes, they won't get deleted so OS X moves them to the recycle bin upon restarting/logging in etc. Just keep on deleting them. :)
 
I see. Thanks for clearing that up for me. I'm assuming that when the battery dies on the MacBook that it causes whatever program is running at the time to end abruptly, hence the recovered files showing in the bin.

Thanks. :)
 
It should go into smart sleep so when the battery hits a certain level, the contents of memory is dumped to disk and the machine turns itself off. There should be no abrupt ending of anything really.
 
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