Ricardo
Cos it's definitely not in /home/ricardo/ , that's the first place I looked.
Apologies if this has nothing to do with it but... I wonder what method you used to check for the files.
It's probably the way I have my newbie options set but hidden 'dot' files do not show up in Konqueror, for example - but they do in a terminal window with 'ls -al'
Syd [Cringing newbie putting his foot in his mouth - but means well]