-=PCTechTalk=- Re: My Documents
- From: GMan <gman.pctt@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 19:00:37 -0500
Sandi,
Perhaps you might want to delete the larger files and keep the smaller
ones until you can determine which cards they are. Of course, if duplicate
cards really aren't a big deal to you (they probably wouldn't be to me, but
it's a highly personal decision), go ahead and delete the folder if you
wish. Of course, that would mean the end to this fun you've been having.
:O)
I should point out to everyone else that Sandi has sent a few of these
files to me so I could try to figure out what they are. Each file has a
long name that is nothing more than a bunch of seemingly random numbers.
After opening up one of them with an older version of QuickView Plus, I
discovered that they were UNIX GZip compressed files (similar to .zip, .rar,
etc.) that contained other files. So, by adding a .gz extension to each
file, I could then use WinZip to extract the contents. Unfortunately, the
contents of each of the smaller ones had been renamed to "Untitledo" without
any hint of an identifying extension. I then opened those up in QuickView
Plus and found the junk that I sent in an earlier reply in this thread.
Because of the descriptive words inside, we both presume that these are
greeting cards she made with the now non-working card maker program. Since
the app no longer works, there's no way for her to open these files to
verify which cards they are.
Now, here comes the fun part. I took this same approach with two of the
larger files and ended up with a single large file full of gibberish. It's
the same kind of gibberish I find when I peek inside of most non-text files
that are not meant to be viewed like this. There is no way for me to figure
out what they are if the filetype cannot be determined, so I replied to her
privately to tell her the bad news. Well, she replied back to tell me that
SHE was able to extract the contents into 4 separate & complete files that
were easily opened and viewed the way they were meant to be viewed. So,
either this means that I shouldn't try to do these experiments when I'm past
my bedtime OR Sandi has now proven herself to be a true Power User. Since I
was not at all tired at the time I tested these,
`````` All Hail Sandi!!! ``````
Peace,
GMan
http://reddit.com
"The only dumb questions are the ones we fail to ask!"
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sandi Beach" <sandib2@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2008 6:19 PM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: My Documents
>I don't know about the greeting cards as I cannot get specifics in order to
> identify them. They are, however, of little importance in the overall
> picture. If someone gets sent the same card I sent last year, at least
> they
> were remembered!
> All of the larger files contain the same four things even though they show
> to be different sizes. And, yes, they are duplicates of the original
> files.
> Sandi
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