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[Guest]

Every so often, a file named ~ pops up on my desktop.
It's a data file, but I don't know where it's coming
from. Any ideas?

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Greetings --

One of the recent "hotfixes" for OE causes the file to be created
when you update the address book. It's just a duplicate copy of the
address book and can be safely deleted. A permanent fix is in
development.


Bruce Chambers
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[Sir_George]

Anon,

The following site should help answer your question;

http://www.pchell.com/support/tildefile.shtml

 

[Bruce]

Every so often, a file named ~ pops up on my desktop.
It's a data file, but I don't know where it's coming
from. Any ideas?
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This is a known bug that was in the April 2003 Cumulative Patch.
Microsoft is aware of it and is working on a fix.

In OE>Tools>Options>Send>Unckeck: Automatically put people I reply to in my
address book. This should stop further ~ files.

See this for more information:
http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/problems/bugs.htm#~file

Bruce