Chrome creates file in my home directory

[MaZaMo]

Whenever I open chrome an empty libpeerconnection.log is created in my home directory. I constantly have to delete it! What is this from? I've never had issues in the past.

Using 12.04

[vasa1]

I've been noticing that file (0 bytes for me) as well. I can't remember seeing it before. I do have Google Chrome installed.

Edit: see https://code.google.com/p/chromium/i...tail?id=239048

[MaZaMo]

I tried reinstalling chrome but it didn't help...

[Frogs Hair]

This directory placement is something the Chrome developers need to address. I created a folder of the same name so it didn't look so out of place. Trying to hide the file or folder didn't work. I am now experimenting with the Iron browser (Chromium based) again which doesn't create the log, but requires the libudev0 dependency in 13.04 like Chrome stable.

[mcduck]

If nothing else, you could always use a ".hidden" file to hide it (without having to rename it).

To do that just create a text file called ".hidden" in the same directory, and add any files & directories to that file, one per each line.

Of course that's just a cosmetic fix, and might not work depending on which desktop environment / file manager you use, but it's still better than having the extra file cluttering your home.

[Frogs Hair]

When trying to hide the document adding by a . a new on was created upon opening Chrome again so I opted for the folder. (Unity)

[mcduck]

Yeah, renaming the file of course wouldn't work since Chrome would just look for the file using the old name anyway. Which is why I suggested adding it to the ".hidden" file instead of renaming the file itself.

To explain that a bit better, at least Nautilus looks for a file called ".hidden" in each directory, and then hides all the files & directories listed in that file exactly as if the files themselves had been renamed to add the dot to the file names. This allows you to hide things even when renaming them is not an option.

For example I use a ~/.hidden file with a list of some directories which I don't need to see all the time, yet I can't rename or delete them without breaking some functionality:

mcduck@Hyperion:~$ cat .hidden
bin
Desktop
Templates
Audiobooks
Podcasts
log
SavedGames

[OmgItsPixelated]

Thanks for that tip, hopefully it'll get addressed in an update.

[MaZaMo]

That solution works, with the .hidden file . . . but it's still not where the file was originally meant to be placed. I wonder what happened to mess up the placement. What does that file do, anyway? It's blank.

[markbl]

That is this bug https://code.google.com/p/chromium/i...tail?id=239048. Please go and star it! Sloppy coding like this annoys the heck out of me.