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I am using Sarge and recently, I found most of my folders are messed up with foo.cmeta, foo.ibex.index, foo.ibex.index.data files, where foo is the name of each normal file in the folder.They were created by something I have no knowledge of and all at the same time.
What could possibly cause this? Is it serious? What are these files for? Can I safely delete them? How would I stop getting these in future if they are confirmed useless?
they sound like mail box data files, create a temp directory and move them all in there reboot, if everything works fine delete them else copy them back.
What mail services are you running?
what does a ls -al give you (users/permissions)?
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