Oxygen XML Forum

I installed the new 9.3 to a new directory on Friday, 24th, at approx. 4:30pm [odd detail to include, I know, but read on]. I also have 9.2 still installed.

I used 9.3 for a while, maybe 45 min or so, then closed it.

Today I found several .xsl files that Oxygen created, all with the naming syntax "oxy#####.xsl" where the number increments by 1, for example oxy10282.xsl. Four of these files were in the directory in which I was editing a project and had opened the files in 9.3.

Each of the "clones" is an exact copy of an .xsl that's in the directory. The timestamps are all within a few minutes of each other, within this 45-minute period when 9.3 was last open.

A search of my computer showed one more clone, oxy28302.xsl, in another directory that I hadn't opened, hadn't browsed with Oxygen, nor had a project file.

No other file types on my system have these cloned instances, only .xsl files, so that seems to rule out a virus [or maybe a truly weird virus might go after .xsl, but that seems awfully unlikely, plus why the "oxy" in the name ... ].

WinXP, SP2.

Hello,

The files with the names "oxy" + number are temporary files created by the XSL transformations that you executed in Oxygen. They should be deleted when you close Oxygen if you exit from Oxygen normally. If you kill the Oxygen application they are not deleted. By default they are created in the same folder as the transformed files but you can change that with the option Create transformation temporary files in system temporary directory available from Options -> Preferences -> XML -> XSLT/FO/XQuery.


Regards,
Sorin

Thank you, Sorin, this explains the mystery.