I can't open them. The Temporary Folder sits at the root level of a drive, is invisible to the user and applications can use it for any purpose. Typically, this includes scratch files or temporary data files. When the system restarts after a freeze or crash it finds that the files were opened. It saves them in the Trash.
Some applications know how to recover the data.
There is not much you can do with it. A utility like Can Opener may help you snoop through the files. Otherwise, just empty the trash and pretend you never saw it. Phil Geller is SMUG co-webmaster, and a Mac consultant. Jeff Hawkins, inventor of the original Palm Pilot at and co-founder of, Palm Computing, founded Handspring in 1998.