The video franchise cognize asLaw & Order — presently , I retrieve there are about 19 versions with 625,000 episodes in syndication — occasionally teases an upcoming instalment with the phrase “ ripped from the headlines ! ” I imagine the intent is to get us all delirious about how nearly this as - yet - unobserved episode is based on some actual issue . I ’m not sure about you , but when I hear it , the first thing I imagine is “ Geez , yet another week where the writers could n’t come up with something unequaled ? ”
What ’s all of this mother to do with today ’s confidential information , you ’re probably ( truly ) thinking ? Well , today ’s clue was also rip from the headline , as long as the newspaper headline let in certain threads on theMacworldforums . Hopefully , though , you wo n’t write this tip off to lack of creativity on the author ’s part !
In the linked thread , substance abuser tfindlay posted that their user ’s Preferences booklet was littered with oddly - identify ( but empty ) brochure , and they were wondering just where they come from . insert yours sincerely . A couple months ago , shortly after switching to the Mac Pro , I had noticed the same matter . And these are n’t just funnily - name folders ; bizarrely - name folder would be a better description . As an example , here ’s a option from my own machine :
As you could see , very foreign names indeed . Every folder is empty , and no harm seems to come from score out them . At first , I thought it might be due to some variety of odd punishing driveway corruption , but the job happen only in my user ’s Preferences folder , so I quickly decided it must be coating - related . After a few months of sort of idly wonder what might be causing the problem , the forum post finally get me searching for an answer … which I eventually found , inthis postin the Mac OS X Hints forums . As remark there , the problem is cause by the Epson TWAIN jade - in for Photoshop ( Elements , CS2 , etc . ) . With the TWAIN number one wood set up , each time you launch Photoshop , you ’ll get a new empty folder with a very odd name .
I ’ve had this driver installed for years , but do n’t recall see this problem on my Dual G5 — a quick check of its Preferences folder finds no oddly - list folders . I ’m not positive this is an Intel - only bug , but it seems that path base on my experience .
Solutions ?
At present , I ’m only cognizant of one “ solution , ” acquire you want to keep using the Epson plug - in : manually delete the added pamphlet . Since they ’re empty , they do n’t take up much space , so it ’s more of an aesthetics egress than anything else . If you want to try an alternative TWAIN plug - in , theTWAIN SANE interface for OS Xmay proffer a solution . Note , however , that this is not a unproblematic nag - and - playing period solution . You ’ll call for to install a few Unix packages , and peradventure also delete some configuration file cabinet to make things ferment . I gave it a guessing , but did n’t have any fate with my Epson Perfection 1660 .
After reinstalling the Epson drivers , the scanner is now working again , albeit with the oddly - constitute booklet issue . I guess I ’ll just extend to manually remove these , and keep my fingerbreadth crossed for an Epson driver update .
