# .Skeleton (and .DataSkeleton)

**URL:** https://talk.remobjects.com/t/skeleton-and-dataskeleton/33937
**Category:** CodeBot
**Created:** [September 7, 2026, 9:45am UTC](https://talk.remobjects.com/t/skeleton-and-dataskeleton/33937 "2026-09-07T09:45:10Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author: ![marcantheunis](https://talk.remobjects.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/bcef8e/32.png) [@marcantheunis](https://talk.remobjects.com/u/marcantheunis)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2026, 9:45am UTC](https://talk.remobjects.com/t/skeleton-and-dataskeleton/33937/1 "2026-09-07T09:45:11Z")

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what is the purpose to those files created by codebot?

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### Author: ![david.millington](https://talk.remobjects.com/user_avatar/talk.remobjects.com/david.millington/32/21503_2.png) [@david.millington](https://talk.remobjects.com/u/david.millington)
#### Post date: [September 17, 2026, 1:58pm UTC](https://talk.remobjects.com/t/skeleton-and-dataskeleton/33937/3 "2026-09-17T13:58:28Z")

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Hi marc - I’m not sure what those files are, sorry. Can you email them, or send more info please?

This could be the result of a specific query or work.

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### Author: ![marcantheunis](https://talk.remobjects.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/bcef8e/32.png) [@marcantheunis](https://talk.remobjects.com/u/marcantheunis)
#### Post date: [September 17, 2026, 2:02pm UTC](https://talk.remobjects.com/t/skeleton-and-dataskeleton/33937/4 "2026-09-17T14:02:51Z")

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those files were just empty…

.Skeleton was like a normal pas file

and .Dataskeleton fdm like (datamodules)

so emailing them will not shed more light i’m afraid

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### Author: ![david.millington](https://talk.remobjects.com/user_avatar/talk.remobjects.com/david.millington/32/21503_2.png) [@david.millington](https://talk.remobjects.com/u/david.millington)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2026, 10:31am UTC](https://talk.remobjects.com/t/skeleton-and-dataskeleton/33937/5 "2026-09-25T10:31:10Z")

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Thankyou. In that case, my guess is it was trying to create namespaced units (foo.Skeleton.pas) to hold classes or data. It’s designed to use unit naming like that - not skeleton etc specifically, but dotted unit names.

The question would be why they were without useful content (if I understood correctly).

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### Author: ![marcantheunis](https://talk.remobjects.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/bcef8e/32.png) [@marcantheunis](https://talk.remobjects.com/u/marcantheunis)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2026, 10:59am UTC](https://talk.remobjects.com/t/skeleton-and-dataskeleton/33937/6 "2026-09-25T10:59:45Z")

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nope the files were 0 bytes long

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### Author: ![david.millington](https://talk.remobjects.com/user_avatar/talk.remobjects.com/david.millington/32/21503_2.png) [@david.millington](https://talk.remobjects.com/u/david.millington)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2026, 11:12am UTC](https://talk.remobjects.com/t/skeleton-and-dataskeleton/33937/7 "2026-09-25T11:12:38Z")

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Thanks. I think without logs,then, it’s not something we can easily diagnose - possibly, we cna hope, a once off ☹ Maybe even a write error, eg, maybe it created the files but could not get them with content. I’ll see what we can repro here. Please let me know if you see this again!