[OS X TeX] Hidden .PfaEdit folder

[Gerben Wierda]

On 10 Dec 2004, at 13:01, Jeff Johnson wrote:

> I have the gw2003 TeX installation, and there's a hidden folder, 
> .PfaEdit, in my home directory.  I assume it's related to the pfaedit 
> i-package.

It might be related to pfaedit (or fontforge as it is now called) but 
it is not created by the i-Package.

> The folder is owned by the system, and I have no access.

That is weird for a folder that has been created in your home 
directory. However, what could have happened is that the first time you 
used fontforge it was for converting the Latin Modern fonts in the TeX 
i-Package, which is done as administrator.

It seems fontforge picks up an environment variable for this instead of 
going for the user information based on real uid (in which case the 
.pfaedit directory would have been created in ~root).

> I changed the owner to myself to look inside, and the folder was 
> empty.  Does anyone know why the folder is there and whether I can 
> safely delete it?  I'd appreciate any information.  Thanks!
>
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