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Mysterious File!
Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2004 9:26 am
by fliptw
what is "%userprofile%\~" all about?
Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2004 9:33 am
by Tetrad
Well I know Outlook Express sometimes put a file named ~ on your desktop. That's probably it.
Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2004 9:54 am
by AceCombat
what attributes does it have appended to it?
Hidden, Archive, System, Read Only ?
Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2004 10:05 am
by fliptw
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.
Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2004 10:37 am
by AceCombat
good.....cuz sometimes you guys make me vomit violently
Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2004 11:25 am
by DigiJo
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.
Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2004 9:45 pm
by Ned
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: