DivX player on OSX creates junk file in Applications directory

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random3622
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When I run divx player, a junk file "\Work\indextest.txt" gets created in /Applications, with contents:

df2Entry.vidChunkOffsetIntoMovi, df2Entry.nVidBlock, df2Entry.audTimeDiffFromVid[0], df2Entry.audTimeDiffFromVid[1], df2Entry.audTimeDiffFromVid[2], df2Entry.audTimeDiffFromVid[3], df2Entry.audTimeDiffFromVid[4], df2Entry.audTimeDiffFromVid[5], df2Entry.audTimeDiffFromVid[6], df2Entry.audTimeDiffFromVid[7], df2Entry.audChunkOffsetIntoMovi[0], df2Entry.audChunkOffsetIntoMovi[1], df2Entry.audChunkOffsetIntoMovi[2], df2Entry.audChunkOffsetIntoMovi[3], df2Entry.audChunkOffsetIntoMovi[4], df2Entry.audChunkOffsetIntoMovi[5], df2Entry.audChunkOffsetIntoMovi[6], df2Entry.audChunkOffsetIntoMovi[7], df2Entry.subChunkOffsetIntoMovi[0], df2Entry.subChunkOffsetIntoMovi[1], df2Entry.subChunkOffsetIntoMovi[2], df2Entry.subChunkOffsetIntoMovi[3], df2Entry.subChunkOffsetIntoMovi[4], df2Entry.subChunkOffsetIntoMovi[5], df2Entry.subChunkOffsetIntoMovi[6], df2Entry.subChunkOffsetIntoMovi[7], df2Entry.nAVIX, df2Entry.prevOffsetIntoMovi, df2Entry.prevAbsoluteTime, df2Entry.previouslyPoppedCache

Randomly writing stuff to the /Applications directory is bad :)

(and yes, the filename is \Work\indextest.txt - those slashes aren't used for directories in OSX)

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Now I remember why I stopped

Now I remember why I stopped using the player :-\
I hope we’ll get a fix for all these issues :-|

Corentin

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Lol, yeah. Seems to happen

Lol, yeah. Seems to happen with AVI files.

riccardi
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Same thing happens for me.

Same thing happens for me.

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