So I have specifically NOT done an update for a while. I skype with my daughter daily and use Ubuntu 12.04 (I think it's .04 but definitely 12). After every session I used to go to file system/tmp and there would be the video file labelled as out.mpg. I would then cut this from there and store it in another folder where I save our chats.
Today, the tmp folder was no longer there. I did a search for it and found it in a completely different directory, one whose name made the hair on the back of my neck stand on end. I found it here: home/PlayOnLinux's virtual drives/e_/dosdevices/c: and in this folder was a lot of stuff labelled as windows and windows based things.
I found other files that seem to be windows related and I am no programmer but I know I didn't install wine and I didn't install the latest updates for about a month now in fact I specifically have not done so, so why would the whole nesting of my tmp folder suddenly be in a location that as far as I know never existed before today?
even freakier, I took some screen shots (not sure how to append the images here [I am a neewb at anything technical on Ubuntu]) and now that I went back to check the path again for writing this, the tmp folder is once again back under it's usual place.
I mean...WTF??? There is also a folder called dosdevices and files called playonlinux.cfg playonlinux.log etc. Obviously Playonlinux seems to me to be some way to access Linux from a windows based machine?
What the hell is going on. Can any of you help with this? I can e-mail screen shots of some of the code in the files too or send the files (if they are still going to be there) I know this makes me sound like a tin-foil hat conspiracy whack job, but this is just strange!