Comments on: Keeping your “My Documents” folder clean

By: LeVirus Watts

LeVirus Watts — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 04:11:46 +0000

Good to know this can be fixed. Thanks.

By: DJarv

DJarv — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 12:58:09 +0000

Thanks for that nugget of info :)

By: Spud

Spud — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 01:54:35 +0000

cant you put in in your temp directory ? it will be deleted in a day or so by windows then

By: Wuped

Wuped — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 23:11:44 +0000

Lol I have 782 game folders… Go me.

By: IN-Agent911

IN-Agent911 — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 21:41:53 +0000

I’ve added don’t save these ever to our issues list of additions. Not as cool as /dev/null though =)

By: Aaron

Aaron — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 18:28:45 +0000

so Thygrrr, does that mean instead of any kind of path or filename, I would just simply put NUL there? or is it at a specific path?

By: Will (green)

Will (green) — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 15:34:28 +0000

Hey, that’s actually really cool. I did not know you could do that. That’s pretty kick-ass.

By: Thygrrr

Thygrrr — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 14:09:50 +0000

What I mean is that the Magic persists even if you do stuff to the filename / extension / path. MAYBE you can work with this.

By: Thygrrr

Thygrrr — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 14:08:43 +0000

Windows does have a null device, called NUL. You could try to “abuse” it as a directory. It’s a magic filename, so if an application were to try to write a file named “NUL.TXT”, it would go to NUL. If it were “PRN.TXT”, it’d go to the printer, some other ones are CON and AUX. You cannot rename a file to these, even in WinXP, so the magic still exists.

By: TurtlePerson2

TurtlePerson2 — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 14:01:16 +0000

Thanks, I had been wondering about that for a while.