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Yeah, weird title I know.
This really isn't an important important, but I was wondering if anyone would know how this happened.

Okay, well if you've never heard of it, vdrift is some open source racing game. I downloaded a long time ago, and when I tried it, it gave me some weird error, and froze up for a few minutes. With no luck, I eventually just threw it away.
Later, while doing a search, I noticed that 2 instances of a folder showed up on the search results. For some reason, there was now an invisible folder in my user directory called .vdrift, which appeared to contain an exact copy of all the files on my desktop at the time of the crash, with about 1/4 of them corrupted.
Now, this wasn't exactly a bad thing, because I found some old files I had accidently deleted, but does anyone know what the heck might have happened?

It started with a period?? That's a system file, how the heck did you access that??
System files start with periods, and the only way I've been able to view even the titles is through the dumb blender open dialog....

If you know the game isn't a virus or anything then it's probably normal. You know how when you delete something on a comp it's still there but there's no link to it, and it stays there until you overwrite it (ie run out of space)? Maybe the game saves a temp copy of the game and it's folder at the time of the crash that can later be analyzed to find the problem. If the game wasn't in it's own folder but in the desktop it might save the desktop instead (but the copy will eventually just be 'disappear' when there's not enough space to keep it there). The files would probably be atleast partially overwrote by now so it would make since that they were corrupt.

Just a guess.

maybe you should ask the creators instead...

ccccc Wrote:It started with a period?? That's a system file, how the heck did you access that??
System files start with periods, and the only way I've been able to view even the titles is through the dumb blender open dialog....

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@topic: I suggest asking at their forum, not the Dim3 forum.

It just sorta seemed an odd thing to start an account on that forum for, considering I don't really care about the game anymore.
But whatever, thanks ya'll. That's probably what happened, ccccc.

Oh, and I didn't find it through that, Bink. I got to it through the folder hiearchy thing on the bottom of the search results.

Decided to use this old thread for another question, since they have similar topics.

I'm OCD about space on my computer, so I was wondering if there was any point to hanging on to the Previous Systems folder. I read in the help files that it stores shared files, but I never use those, so...
Actually not that OCD I spose, since it takes up 4.58G.

Also view hidden files by typing in the terminal:


And just set it to false to reverse the effect. Killall Finder just relaunches it. System files are hidden but are completely accessible if youre admin.

Some games create file backups for error reports or something upon crashing. A lot of hidden files are crated. There are apps to completely delete an app and all files associated with it. This is why those apps have been created.

correction: