Yummy FTP in Application Support?

[TJung]

Hi,

I'm using the App Starter Namely on my system and always when I'm typing yum into Namely's input field in order to start Yummy FTP, "Yummy FTP.app" gets listed twice.
I found out that one item is of course from my "Applications" folder and the other one is stored in ~/Library/Application Support.

Well, this doesn't bother me at all but nonetheless I'm wondering: Is "Yummy FTP.app" supposed to be found in the "Application Support" folder and if it is: What is it doing there?

[JD]

Nothing to worry about. It's a left over from when the Software Update mechanism had some problems a while back. Those are now fixed, but I'm certainly not going to program Yummy to go around deleting stuff from your HD ... you can safely delete it

[TJung]

Aah, okay.
Thanks a lot!
:-)

[paulc]

Hmmmm, just took a look at my "Yummy FTP Support" folder... holy smokes! 227 items, it looks lie they are all zero bytes Most looking like they have something to do with icons.

Removed that folder, launched Yummy, it asked me to update from b0 to b1, that worked, then I looked at the new Yummy FTP Support folder. 4 items and an empty folder. All with icon in their filenames. All zero byte files.

Would love to know what is really going on here... seems over time, these items pileup, so maybe some garbage collection might be in order?

[JD]

This is perfectly normal. They form part of an icon database for the various file types that Yummy uses to display on the server side listing.

[paulc]

Ah, yes I see a number of the files I removed having various icons... while still being zero byte files (which sounds odd to me, unless Tiger ignores resource forks...).

Still, something is very wrong... I now see that I have 638 items in that folder. It looks like every single file I look at gets one of these... I also see that I just opened a folder on my website with probably 600 files in it (624 to be exact). These are daily web logs, all showing a blank icon (not surprising, they have no extension although they ARE ASCII files). Yummy created a "icon.<filename>" blank file in app support for every single file it "read" during the connection.

I'm not sure I really get a zero byte file. Obviously a filename generally has an allocation... as in in a directory entry that points to the physical location. If this zero byte file HAS an icon on it (i.e. other than the 624 I mentioned above), how can it be zero bytes?

[JD]

These files are to do with the internal implementation details of Yummy FTP. As I said, Yummy makes these empty files in order to fetch the correct icon to display in the server listings. The icons get assigned by the OS depending on their file name extensions. All these files are zero bytes because they are empty. They don't have resource forks - that's Mac OS 9 technology. Do you really want me to continue to describe the implementation details in their entirety?

I will reiterate. These are perfectly normal and nothing to worry about. You're making a fuss about nothing... really!