DivX player on OSX creates junk file in Applications directory

DivX player on OSX creates junk file in Applications directory

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)


Lol, yeah. Seems to happen

Lol, yeah. Seems to happen with AVI files.

Same thing happens for me.

Same thing happens for me.

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