Sorry I wasn't sufficiently clear. 

I guess I should have said: There is a subdirectory 
in my /home/joe user file _system_ named 'autosave', 
rather than having said: "in my user files". 

> What happens when you type:
> cd <directory in question>
> ls -a
> Does anything show up in that directory?

As I originally stated, this 'autosave' subdirectory 
"never has anything in it (as nearly as I can tell)." 

When I 'cd' into 'autosave' and type: ls -a 
the result is a blank, zero, nothing. 

> And please tell us what distro your're using.

Mandrake 8.1 

> Always empty files?  Or always empty directories? Which is it? 
> It's not clear to me.

'autosave' is a subdirectory within /home/joe 

From time to time, I come across other empty subdirectories. 
How does one determine which of these apparently 
perpetually empty subdirectories can be eliminated? 

Thanks, 

Joe 

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