1GB Trash. Permission denied.

[Robert Holtzman]

On Sun, 5 Jul 2009, Steven Susbauer wrote:

>
> On Jul 5, 2009, at 1:35 PM, Robert Holtzman wrote:
>
>> Out of curiosity I just looked at ~/.config and see things
>> pertaining to apps that I deleted long ago and others pertaining to
>> apps currently installed (but no trash). What is the function of
>> this directory?
>
> It is used to store configuration information by those applications
> which use it. Essentially .config is preferable to every app using
> their own .app file (which can become very disorganized). These files
> are not removed when you remove an application because they are not
> created by the package itself. If there is an app in there you no
> longer have installed, you can also remove its configuration if you
> like, same for an app which you would like to have reset to an
> unconfigured state.

That clears it up for me. Thanks.

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