Windows – Mysterious xyz.event files appearing

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I am getting mysterious .event files – always empty, created by me a few weeks ago – in several local project directories. They are all Subversion checkouts. They are always named after the directory they reside in, so a directory named pagination will contain a pagination.event file.

Does anybody know what this is?

Possibly important information:

  • I am working on a Windows 7 Workstation
  • I use NuSphere's PHP IDE (no updates recently)
  • I use TortoiseSVN for version control
  • I set up a Windows 7 backup job recently that ran once, I can' remember when exactly.
  • The event files seem to turn up only in repositories
  • There is no external access to those repositories

Best Answer

This is a reply I received from Corel Customer Services after finding EVENT Files in all my folders, hope it answers the question

Thank you for your e-mail. Please be advised that .event file is a hidden file and is automatically created once a folder in your hard drive has been cataloged by Corel Digital Studio, PaintShop Photo Express, etc. Corel Digital Studio creates a thumbnails of the images stored in a folder and the .event file monitors the changes inside that folder (removing and adding photos, etc.). When Corel Digital Studio is installed on your computer, the .event file will be added to each folder with stored media files in it.

Regards,

Allan

Corel Customer Service

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