On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 4:29 PM, Richard Shaw <hobbes1069@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Anyone know what this is? I couldn't find any relevant pages in Google. > > I have a file called "??" (no quotes) in the home directory of my > mythtv user. When I try to do anything to the file it acts like it's > not there. Is this something that fsck would fix? I don't know if it's > related but I noticed it after using "switchdesk" a few times to try > different desktop managers. try some things like $ ls -l '??' $ file '??' to get started figuring out what it is ... if a text file then $ cat '??' to look at it, etc. John