weird folder with ms printer drivers in my home folder

[Steven Susbauer]

On 11/11/2009 02:59 AM, Colin Law wrote:
> 2009/11/11 Vitorio Okio <ovitorio at hotmail.com>:
>> All at a sudden I've found a strange folder in /home on my Jaunty.
>>
>> The folder is using apparently random 30 digits number for its name.  It
>> contains 2 sub-folders: /amd64 and /i386.  Each of those in their turn
>> contains a bunch of same files: several .dll's, .cat, .gpd, and .inf
>> files.  According to a time stamp the folder is about couple of months
>> old.
>>
>> The .inf file in each mentioned above sub-folders suggests that these are
>> files for "Microsoft system driver files for XPSDrv print drivers."
>>
> 
> Could they have been put there temporarily by something, with the
> intention of removing them after installing them wherever they were
> supposed to go, but then they failed to get deleted for some reason?
> Do any of the files exist anywhere else on the machine?

The Microsoft XPS Printer Drivers are installed by Microsoft Office (and
probably others), you wouldn't happen to have Office in WINE would you?
It is a print to file system, similar to PDF printers. Probably does
some more advanced stuff as well.

See: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa506197.aspx

It is also common for Office to store a cache folder somewhere on the
drive. I couldn't explain why it is in your home folder, usually it is
stored in the root of the drive.

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