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<blockquote data-quote="XJ-linux" data-source="post: 1534811" data-attributes="member: 33722"><p>Sounds like a program that was installed used something like a default of $HOME to create a variable sized directory (ie var directory) in there for logging. About all you can do without buying maintenance software is to look in your syslog's and search for /Users/username/var to see if you get lucky and see an entry that calls things out well enough. From there you can hopefully find out what uses it and whether you need it.</p><p></p><p>As far as "seeing" it, I'd imagine it will go away of you chmod it to something less obvious like 740 or whatnot - depending upon what it's current ownership and permissions are. Then again that could "break" whatever is logging there. Of course, again, there doesn't seem to be anything logging there, so your guess is as good as anyone else's right now...</p><p></p><p>Good times.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="XJ-linux, post: 1534811, member: 33722"] Sounds like a program that was installed used something like a default of $HOME to create a variable sized directory (ie var directory) in there for logging. About all you can do without buying maintenance software is to look in your syslog's and search for /Users/username/var to see if you get lucky and see an entry that calls things out well enough. From there you can hopefully find out what uses it and whether you need it. As far as "seeing" it, I'd imagine it will go away of you chmod it to something less obvious like 740 or whatnot - depending upon what it's current ownership and permissions are. Then again that could "break" whatever is logging there. Of course, again, there doesn't seem to be anything logging there, so your guess is as good as anyone else's right now... Good times. [/QUOTE]
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