If you have your desktop connected to the Pogoplug service through "remote access" (Check in preferences of your Pogoplug drive software). Then all items on your desktop are being indexed and thumbnails will be created of pictures on your desktop.

In .cedata the thumbnails are kept for the web UI. And in the .ceid file some preferences are being saved. For example if you are sharing files through Facebook etc.

If you move these they will simply be created again automatically in the same location. You could see them as something similar as a thumbs.db file in Windows.

I understand they might annoy you, I also don't like a cluttered desktop. What you can do is just remove the path to your desktop from the "remote access" list under preferences of the drive software and then remove the two files.

There has got to be a better way to allow remote access of a system folder than putting hidden files/folders into the root of that same folder, especially the desktop!! That goes against all standard programming practices and procedures. That is what the "Appdata" folder in each individual user area in Windows is for or better yet the general "Program Data" folder. Place icons and any other necessary data for a shared folder in an appropriately named folder under a special Pogoplug appdata area, NOT in the root of the folder itself, PLEASE! I have turned off remote sharing of my desktop because of this improperly programmed feature. Fortunately the presence of these hidden "dot" files/folders in music, videos, pictures, and documents is not as obvious nor annoying as it is on a desktop, but it is still not good nor correct.

__________________ Michael R. Boyer michaelrboyer@gmail.com