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Forum: Geek Forum Topic: Back for some help. started by: Bozeman Posted by Bozeman on Feb. 22 2002,00:43
Hey everybody, remember me? I used to post in these forums a lot about a year ago, but I stopped coming to detnet because of the flamewars, and the lack of new material.Now I am in a bit of a crisis, and the ones who were supposed to help have turned me away. You wonderful people in the detnet forums are my last, best hope. *sigh* Where to begin? First, I used Morpheus, the filesharing program, to download a pic. When the download was completed, the file, a .bmp, had an extermely long name, and refused to open, be renamed, be deleted, or give any properties. Any attempt to change the name did not work. I tried changing it to "J" and "gfgkjdfhg" but they were rejected as "too long or invalid." Attempts to get info or cut/copy or delete were met with an explorer error that caused the window to fail, and on one occasion, a blue screen of death. I gave up trying myself, and tried Microsoft. Their site said they could only help me if I bought Win98, and because it was installed free on my comp when I bought it, I needed help from Hewlett Packard. The HP site was a nightmare. Everything was slow, or didn't load. My model of PC was nowhere to be found. Worst of all, when I tried to email the webmaster, and complain about the shitty site, it froze my comp. The file itself is, again, a ".bmp". Norton doens't recognise it as viral, and I just updated today. Has anyone run across a file that refuses to die? Know what's wrong or what to do? Please help me fix this. Finally, some questions. You don't have to answer these, unless you feel like it. What's been going on? Where did cr0 go? Who runs Detnet? Being gone a year put me way out of touch with the forums, but I remember people like Wolfguard, kuru, and others far too numerous to mention. I emplore you, help me out for old time's sake. Posted by editor on Feb. 22 2002,01:04
I'm not the brightest bulb, but have you tried DOS instead of windows? del "file" or attrib "file" I think....Meanwhile, this is editor, and while I pay for rackspace and the domain, detnet belongs to its community.... see what cr0 wrote on the frontpage. I for one would really love to know what he's up to... Meanwhile Anztac and Wiley are creating a new site, and DSL keeps things under control and gives a certain sheen to detnet all his own! So have some fun, and go right ahead and flame me! You will eventually anyway.... Posted by liquid metal on Feb. 22 2002,02:29
hifirst of all, are you attempting to view it in morpheus or just regular windows. also we'll need cpu specs. Posted by RadioActive on Feb. 22 2002,03:21
great idea by editor. no matter what the file is, boot to good old dos, that will take care of the long file name and windows claiming that the file is in use, and delete the file through dos. problem solved. or u can even try to rename it through dos.edit: added some punctuation Posted by Bozeman on Feb. 24 2002,19:03
Thanks for all your help, with a little guesswork I was able to delete the file in DOS. Mabey I'll stick around.
Posted by veistran on Feb. 25 2002,07:22
sometimes nothing is better than the ol' command line.
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