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Thanks. I can't _prove_ that nothing is emptying the directory, but I don't think there's anything that is. To me the problem appears to be that VLC isn't actually building a cache of fonts.

I do have permissions for this directory--I included the output of 'ls' in the original post to show that.

I have VLC 2.01 on OS X 10.7.3. Every time I run VLC, I get a dialog saying it's building a font cache for a minute or two before the video will play. ~/Library/Cache/fontconfig exists but is empty, even after VLC starts playing, and I have permission to write files there. od:~$ ls -ld ~/Library/Cac...