When I ls
my Desktop from terminal (by using ls ~/Desktop
), I see a file named Icon?
. As far as I can tell, it's empty (nano Icon?
shows nothing). It doesn't show up on my actual Desktop, and open Icon?
shows the Finder alert
This item is used by Mac OS X and can't be opened
Here is the output from mdls Icon?
:
kMDItemContentType = ""
kMDItemFSContentChangeDate = 2009-09-23 13:32:52 -0600
kMDItemFSCreationDate = 2009-09-20 07:27:46 -0600
kMDItemFSCreatorCode = "MACS"
kMDItemFSFinderFlags = 16384
kMDItemFSHasCustomIcon = 0
kMDItemFSInvisible = 1
kMDItemFSIsExtensionHidden = 0
kMDItemFSIsStationery = 0
kMDItemFSLabel = 0
kMDItemFSName = "Icon "
kMDItemFSNodeCount = 0
kMDItemFSOwnerGroupID = 20
kMDItemFSOwnerUserID = 501
kMDItemFSSize = 0
kMDItemFSTypeCode = "icon"
Does anyone have an idea as to what this is?