Anyone Help Me With These File Names ..?

Silver_Fox · April 2003

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anyone know what the hell these files are/mean?

I've already run a virus scan, nothing came up ...

[WHO]Them · April 2003

looks like Hard-Drive corruption to me

MaTT · April 2003

If your Virii scanner is a decent one such as Norton or Macafee then it should be safe to open one with notepad and see what they contain...

Silver_Fox · April 2003

I tried opening 4 or so random files in note pad - nothing in them, I also noted the 7 or so files I checked had 0 bytes .. and its only in the Sierra/Halflife folder .. no where else on the drive

/me is confused

GWAR · April 2003

Back when i was running Win2k, I found quite a few of those.

They should be safe to delete. (I did and never had any problems)

[WHO]Them · April 2003

I'm telling you that I think it's a sign of more corruption to come, I'd make a backup quickly if I were you

roachems · April 2003

its probably windows just taking a dump on itself

delete the files!

Smoke_Nova · April 2003

if they were added without your knowledge, you can probably delete them. if they are neccesary, then they will re-install/download themselves

DOOManiac · April 2003

AFAIK, its something that HL makes for some reason when it crashes. So every time your HL crashes, you get a new gibberish file for zero bytes. Should be safe to delete.

Sephiroth2k · April 2003

thats odd doom, when my hl used to crash all the time, never got one of those... and fox, your hl must have crashed a LOT if it made that many files lol

pielemuis · April 2003

Doom i believe it places those files in your root directory (c:/) and they all start with t3 on my computer. I'm running win98 so maybe it's different on 2k/xp/whatever...

It contains stuff like this , when you open them in wordpad.
I'd follow them on this, and make backups, just to make sure. Did you overclock your FSB ?
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Aezay · April 2003

I know FireArms creates a lot of these zero byte files, and seeing a firearms dir in ur screenshot, I assume thats what created them.
I have 395 of these files in my HL dir, *presses delete* well not anymore.

editor321 · April 2003

do not worry about this, it is nothing, i have had these files, ive deleted them, they havent came back, there are of no importance, they seem to spwan when you join a game of NS for no apparent reason, but nothing to be worried about

Narfwak · April 2003

This is nothing. I got a 700 MB "bot.txt" file from a RealBot error once. It's simple existance slowed down HL to 10 FPS until I found it and deleted it.

So yeah, if in doubt, just delete it. And cross your fingers. With a four-leaf-clover attached to your lucky rabbit's foot nearby, along with your lucky penny.

Anyone Help Me With These File Names ..?

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