-=PCTechTalk=- Re: My Documents
- From: "Sandi Beach" <sandib2@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 20:46:41 -0600
G, while I appreciate the affirmation, we all know that I just stumble along
and sometimes fall into success after you have bailed me out and laid the
foundation!! Anywho, thanks again. I am delighted to know I have not lost
anything and I can now tidy up by deleting those "weird files" and have a
neat (well a neater) My Documents folder.
Sandi
----- Original Message -----
From: "GMan" <gman.pctt@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2008 6:00 PM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: My Documents
> 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!"
>
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