?. file in Winnt dir.
From: Jason Garms [MS] (jasong_at_microsoft.com)
Date: 04/30/03
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Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 22:31:03 -0700
That's not a standard system file. It's also almost
definately not a file added by any application. Why?
because it's hard to get a . in the name of a file, and
it's near-to-impossible to get a ? in the name of a file,
since ? is a single-character wildcard.
It's *possible* that you have disk corruption. Run chkdsk
from the command line or from the GUI to determine and/or
fix.
If that doesn't help, please respond to my email address
directly (I don't usually browse backward in the
newsgroup) with the following, and i'll see if i can help:
- what version of the OS and service packs
- what filesystem you're running
- do you see this from both the explorer UI and from the
command prompt?
- please go to the command prompt, and change into that
directory and do and "dir /a >> this.txt", which will
output the entire directory listing into a txt file.
please email me that file with answers to the above
questions.
best,
-jasong
>-----Original Message-----
>Hi all,
>i saw a zero byte file in my c:\winnt\ directory named
>as "?.", what is thie "?."file and what is it used for.
>Is this a win2k file.
>Thanks
>Bij.
>
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>.
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