Some time ago I saved a .jpg file I found on the Internet to my desktop, giving it a name that ended with a period. Having done that, I found that the file on my desktop was now an unusable blank, I assume because of confusion caused by that period, so I deleted it and saved the .jpg again...
File size is 0 bytes. When i try to remove it an error message appears, saying "Could not find file".
Here is the list of things i've tried to do with the file:
*reboot
*reset folder options
*cleaned the register with CCleaner
*tried removing it with the del command
*replacing it with a...
As the title says, when I restart my laptop (acer aspire 3810t, upgraded from Vista 32-bit to 7 64-bit) files that have been recently edited/accessed will still be on the hard drive, although appear as 0 bytes (I'm not sure whether they are still using the same space on the disk as the problem...
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zerobytes