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Asitis
Asked: 2016-11-03 23:54:40 +0800 CST

remove .dat files from /home/user/

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I'm new to Ubuntu after jumping the OS X ship since Captain Tim is starting to lose it. So I've been trying it on dualboot, and I love it.

But I see some files in my Home folder which I -think- I can delete, but I also know it could implode everything. Can anyone tell me if these files are safe to delete?

  • dht.dat
  • dht_feed.dat
  • Examples
  • Release.key
  • resume.dat
  • rss.dat
  • settings.dat

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Edit: Well, I moved all files to the trash and since then I experienced several freezes, crashes etc. Which would all be fixed by a (forced) reboot, but they kept happening, so I moved all items back from the trash and so far so good; no more freezes (yet).

So appearantly there is something with these files. How could I debug any errors?

filesystem

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  1. Best Answer

    Can anyone tell me if these files are safe to delete?

    • That is for you to decide.
    • They don't belong in /home/$USER/ though.
    • It looks like you open an install file in /home/$USER/.
    • Should be safe to remove in my opinion but you never know ;)

    Even so ... from command line you can delete this with ...

    rm dht.dat dht_feed.dat Release.key resume.dat rss.dat settings.dat

    And if you want to make a backup first ...

    mkdir ~/backup
mv dht.dat dht_feed.dat Release.key resume.dat rss.dat settings.dat ~/backup/

    I left "Examples" out of it even though it is harmless to delete; it is a default directory and not part of the other files your listed.

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