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I installed Mathematica on Linux (PopOs) and it runs perfectly, I was going through my harddrive and found a folder within Downloads, which is called Downloads/.19882 it is 4.5 Gb. Within it there's another one called Unix. Within there are a bunch of files that Mathematica seemed to have placed there. I wonder if it is safe to remove? Has anyone seen this before?

Jorge Luis Gálvez Vallejo
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  • Can you name one or two of the files? What makes you think Mathematica put them there? I also recently installed Mathematica on Pop!_Os and I don't have this folder, anyway :) – Carl Lange Sep 30 '20 at 17:30
  • Hello, yes. Within .19882/Unix/Installer/MathInstaller and it looks like this:

    #!/bin/bash

    ----------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Installer for Mathematica Applications

    This file and all scripts and messages accessed from this file

    (c) 2004 Wolfram Research, Inc. All rights reserved.

    LANG=C export LANG

    ----------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Function: BuildDesktopFile()

     – Jorge Luis Gálvez Vallejo Sep 30 '20 at 17:45
  • Well, that certainly looks like the installer for Mathematica, which is about that size. It can probably be deleted. I would suggest moving it and seeing if Mathematica opens and runs fine with that file in a different place, and if so, just removing it. – Carl Lange Sep 30 '20 at 17:52
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    Simple rename it and see if mathematica is running. – Daniel Huber Sep 30 '20 at 19:11
  • Renaming and launching mathematica worked like a charm so I can assume it is safe to delete. Thanks everyone! – Jorge Luis Gálvez Vallejo Sep 30 '20 at 19:20

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