Mysterious File!

fliptw · Post by **fliptw** » Mon Aug 30, 2004 9:26 am

what is "%userprofile%\~" all about?

Tetrad · Post by **Tetrad** » Mon Aug 30, 2004 9:33 am

Well I know Outlook Express sometimes put a file named ~ on your desktop. That's probably it.

AceCombat · Post by **AceCombat** » Mon Aug 30, 2004 9:54 am

what attributes does it have appended to it?

Hidden, Archive, System, Read Only ?

fliptw · Post by **fliptw** » Mon Aug 30, 2004 10:05 am

Just archive. like the normally useless attributes of a file would tell us much of what the file is doing.

Ace, you make baby jebus vomit violently.

AceCombat · Post by **AceCombat** » Mon Aug 30, 2004 10:37 am

good.....cuz sometimes you guys make me vomit violently

DigiJo · Post by **DigiJo** » Mon Aug 30, 2004 11:25 am

not a filename, thats a systemvariable holding the path to the current active users profile. if you have a file named like that there is probably something gone wrong.

Ned · Post by **Ned** » Mon Aug 30, 2004 9:45 pm

speaking of weird files:

http://www.fuckmicrosoft.com/content/ms ... iles.shtml

replace the *** with a word that ryhmes with truck or search for google:
""Microsoft's Really Hidden Files""

I confirmed what this article says with linux viewing my c: