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Apr 29, 2011

I use openSUSE 11.4, KDE Desktop.

Each time I open my /home folder via Konqueror, I'm prompted with this message at the bottom of the Konqueror window. Since I'm a noob, I'm wondering if this is "normal". I did a google search and didn't find anything of interest.

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Same for files that are not obviously scripts such as just a.txt.

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