- spontaineous zero byte file size for several mp3's
- Posted by humbll via HWKB.com on December 14th, 2006
I have a newer dell laptop with an 80 GB hard drive on which I had about 200
mp3's stored. Over a dozen of these mp3's have suddenly went from their
original file sizes to zero bytes file size. Some of them had been played
recently, others hadn't been played for quite some time. The disk is in
perfect shape according to spinrite and scandisk. I was wondering if anyone
else had noticed similar things happening on their systems? I should note
that the files were stored in the same folder, but the files that were
blanked out were spread throughout the folder, two of them (metallica songs)
were right next to each other. Thanks all!
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- Posted by Quaoar on December 14th, 2006
humbll via HWKB.com wrote:
What is the operating system? You mentioned scandisk, so is it Win98,
Win98SE, WinME?
It is very rare these days that file properties change; it was WinFWG3.1
that was the last OS (maybe Win95, but I never had it) that would
spontaneously screw up the file system.
If the OS is WinXP, then you should run chkdsk /r from a command prompt
to restore the file system.
Q
- Posted by humbll via HWKB.com on December 14th, 2006
it is windows xp sp2, there is absolutly nothing wrong with either the disk
nor the file system. I just remembered this started happening right after i
installed the new windows media player 11, and i am pretty sure that is the
culprit. i am currently conducting tests to see if i can figure out exactly
what is going on..i will keep you updated.
Quaoar wrote:
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- Posted by Quaoar on December 14th, 2006
humbll via HWKB.com wrote:
WMP11 has new Digital Rights Management 'features'. I'm wondering if it
manipulates file properties if there is no license extant for the clip?
Q
- Posted by CBFalconer on December 14th, 2006
Quaoar wrote:
If it's XP, read the EULA. It is possible that Microsoft has taken
advantage of their blanket permission to destroy anything on your
system of which they disapprove.
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- Posted by Jimbo on December 15th, 2006
CBFalconer <cbfalconer@yahoo.com> wrote:
Mindlessly silly.
- Posted by CBFalconer on December 15th, 2006
Jimbo wrote:
I agree. But nobody has every suggested that Microsoft has a
technical mind. It is well known that their objective is to
destroy anything non-Microsoft.
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- Posted by Jimbo on December 15th, 2006
CBFalconer <cbfalconer@yahoo.com> wrote:
Mindless conspiracy theory.
- Posted by kony on December 15th, 2006
On Fri, 15 Dec 2006 20:21:31 +1100, "Jimbo" <jim@jim.com>
wrote:
If this were 10 years ago, maybe. Since we have the luxury
of hindsight, you'd be a bit foolish not to recognize it.
That is not an expectation the MP3 were corrupt, I'd sooner
blame some rogue RIAA virus.
- Posted by Jimbo on December 15th, 2006
kony <spam@spam.com> wrote:
Even more of a mindless conspiracy theory today.
MS clearly isnt doing that with linux currently.
Its more likely to just be a quirk of the WMP 11 that
only produces that result in some unusual situations.
Just another bug in other words.
Why would a virus bother to zero the length
of the files and not just delete the files ?
