Tilde

[stan]

An icon appears on my desktop with the TILDE symbol below it. What created
it, what does it mean, can it be deleted?.
Stan

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

What is the Tilde (~) file that appears on my Desktop?
http://www.pchell.com/support/tildefile.shtml

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| An icon appears on my desktop with the TILDE symbol below it. What created
| it, what does it mean, can it be deleted?.
| Stan

 

[Torgeir Bakken (MVP)]

An icon appears on my desktop with the TILDE symbol below it. What created
it, what does it mean, can it be deleted?.

Hi

What is the ~ (tilde) file on my desktop?:
http://www.pchell.com/support/tildefile.shtml



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[Guest]

it is a bug from outlook , i believe it is a save file for a sent email that doesn't get put in the right spot. i heard if you delete it then you don't have a backup of that email so i made a folder to throw them into. no big deal really. i usually delete them instead of going through the trouble of putting it in a folder unless it's an important email.

 

[Tim Slattery]

An icon appears on my desktop with the TILDE symbol below it. What created
it, what does it mean, can it be deleted?.

It's an OE bug. OE makes a backup of your address file, and sometimes
forgets to delete it. You can delete it, but eventually OE will
recreate it.

 

[Plato]

An icon appears on my desktop with the TILDE symbol below it. What created
it, what does it mean, can it be deleted?.

http://www.bootdisk.com/xptop10.htm#10

 

[cquirke (MVP Win9x)]

On Mon, 15 Mar 2004 08:33:26 -0600, "Carey Frisch [MVP]"

What is the Tilde (~) file that appears on my Desktop?
http://www.pchell.com/support/tildefile.shtml

Nice write-up. As usual, doesn't mention the privacy downside of
leaving multiple copies of your email address book lying around with a
known name in guessable locations.

It's nearly a year now, and MS still hasn't fixed this. Doesn't bode
well for the QA needed when being asked to swallow patch of the day.

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