Well, this was weird...

jlee

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I downloaded some stuff at school (dialup at home) and put it on my 256mb PNY 'Attache' USB drive..and I notice some really strange filenames with indicated file sizes of 1,611,082KB, 1,754,537KB, etc...if I check file properties, size is zero. They were undeletable through windows..it threw some error saying the file didn't exist, it couldn't find it, or something like that (forgot to get a screencap of it).

It showed up on the school system too, but only after I had transferred files to it.



Weird.

I made it work, though.. :p
 

toant103

Lifer
Jul 21, 2001
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Originally posted by: CadetLee
I downloaded some stuff at school (dialup at home) and put it on my 256mb PNY 'Attache' USB drive..and I notice some really strange filenames with indicated file sizes of 1,611,082KB, 1,754,537KB, etc...if I check file properties, size is zero. They were undeletable through windows..it threw some error saying the file didn't exist, it couldn't find it, or something like that (forgot to get a screencap of it).

It showed up on the school system too, but only after I had transferred files to it.



Weird.

I made it work, though.. :p

did you delete the subfolder too?
 

jlee

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I formatted it via the fake DOS window (XP), then checked through My Computer...it was empty. :)