>try to make folder called AUX >can't >try to save

>>59437223
It's the botnet anon, get the tinfoil, quick.

tried to make folder named ';';ll@$%
its fine cuz my OS is not retarded

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>>59437263

>>59437223
>explain
The specified device name is invalid. It says that right in the image.

>purposely making a reserved folder name "AUX"
>can't do it
>complain

for what reason

>>59437263
Have fun trying to remember the name of the folder, let alone typing it out

>hurrrrrrr such suprior OS

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Thinkpad T420 with HD+ Display doesnt have this problem.

>>59437223
>>59437263
>>59437299
>>59437300
>>59437324
>>59437328
>try to turn off the botnet
>can't
explain

>>59437340
Don't reply to me again.

>>59437351
Can I reply to you're wifes son?

The botnet is on to you anon.

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AUX IS CIA

>doing a placement as a wageslave at the local community college
>they are rolling out a network storage system using windows server
>each user gets up to 2gb of storage
>it's stored as two directories
>the first level is the first three letters of the person's surname
>the second level is a three digit number to uniquely identify the users within the first level
>everything works fine during trials
>they roll it out
>for some reason the system rejects a person
>can't understand why
>try to do it manually
>"The specified device name is invalid."
>check their id
>"con/000"
>con is an invalid folder number
they ended up giving her a new id "coo"

>>59437223
>try to create .service file on OS X
>can't

It's just because devs at Microshaft and Applel can't be bothered to remove decades old stuff from their OSes.

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>>59437223
I can.

>>59437724
apple does it constantly because they don't care about backwards compatibility. That is why some apps stop working after an upgrade.

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>>59437223
>unironically using spy-subsystem-ridden Jew-ware

>>59437324
>what is tab completion

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>>59437724
well what do you know...

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>>59437223
>leenux
>can't create folder with /
>mfw lincucks will defend this

>>59439079
how did you remove the stop light buttons?

>>59437351
Kill yourself, dick wrinkle.

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>>59439107
like this

>>59439137
pls

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>>59437223

This is a part of Windows' legacy. You can't create folders whose names match system devices. Other invalid folder names include CON, PRN, CLOCK$, NUL, COM1, COM2, COM3, COM4, COM5, COM6, COM7, COM8, COM9, LPT1, LPT2, LPT3, LPT4, LPT5, LPT6, LPT7, LPT8, LPT9.

c:\>mkdir \\.\c:\con  or  c:\>md\\.\c:\con
c:\>DEL \\.\c:\con
c:\>rmdir \\.\c:\con

>>59439143
theme engine
https://github.com/alexzielenski/ThemeEngine

join the /g/ macOS discord if you want more deets, im tired

>>59439107
prefrences>general, change appearance to graphite

>>59437328
>not using custom theme
Why live?

>>59439195
kek; good one

>>59439154
do you per any chance also know the special names for "my computer", "recycle bin" ? there was a special string that could be used to create them

>>59437223
>windows
Found your problem

>>59439154
What would happen if I connected the drive to linux, created one of aforementioned folders then booted windows?

>>59439304
Kill yourself, you dumb fucking shit stain.

>>59439368
t. wintoddler

>>59439281
seeing as the os is basically a hierarchical model database -- ie. regedit.exe
i am sure this is possible though it may cause corruption on finders and headers... so at least backup your registry before dropping or changing values

>>59439341
fuck if i know, sounds interesting though i will try it

>>59437223
>file with over 260 characters in name
>can't delete
>can't rename
>can't move
lol windoze

>>59439431

>C:\Thisisalongfilenamesolongitmaycausewindowstogetfuckedbutwindowsworksreallyreallywellicanplaygameslikeaproandilikethingsjustwerkingialsolovebrowsingtheinternetusinggooglechromebecauseonlycoolpeopleusechromenotfirefoxorinternetexploreriamreallygayandimakelongfilenamestobecoollikeahackeriamsuchahackeriwatchmrrobotandthengoandbrowsethemrrobotsubredditonredditiloveredditsomuchnotmypresident

>>59439417
there were some special strings for them. it didn't cause any problems, but the folder would appear as computer or recycle bin and would link to that place. if you created folders inside of it you could only access them if you knew the full path because they couldn't be listed. was a nice way to hide stuff

http://www.thewindowsclub.com/create-restricted-files-folders-con-aux-nul-click-windows

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>>59437263
>>59437281
>try to copy files from your linux machine to a windows machine
>cant do it without renaming files because windows is fucking retarded and doesn't like some of your filenames

>>59439507
thats nothing. create a git repo with 2 files having the same name, but one in lowercase and one in uppercase and checkout the repo on windows, change one of those files, and add and commit them them again

>>59439465
like this?

HIDE

attrib -s -h “C:\Users\WinUser1\Desktop\TopSecret”

UNHIDE

attrib +s +h “C:\Users\WinUser1\Desktop\TopSecret”

>>59439431
Except that's wrong, shit for brains. Kill yourself.

>>59439459
>"This is a long filename. So long it may cause windows to get fucked, but windows works really, really well. I can play games like a pro and I like things just werking (sic). I also love browsing the internet using Google Chrome because only cool people use chrome - not firefox or internet explorer. I am really gay and I make long filenames to be cool like a hacker. I am such a hacker I watch Mr. Robot and then go and browse the Mr. Robot subreddit on Reddit. I love Reddit so much. Not my president."
Kek

>>59439534
no idea what that does, i don't even have a windows vm and haven't touched windows since xp sp1 came out

>>59439507
>move music to windows partition from linux partition so I can access it from both
>a few albums and a few songs from a few albums are gone because it didn't like the filenames
>don't know which albums/songs

>>59439086
How do I do that

>>59439507
>have linux

>type "please take me to facebook" into terminal

>linux doesn't know what I mean because it's fucking retarded and doesn't like some of my input

It's almost like you have to work with the OS and act within it's bounds, whether or not you would like those bounds to be changed is another discussion entirely. pick a land next time

>>59439661
is this bait?

>>59439690
>copying files across OS's without first knowing the basics of naming conventions for those OS's

Is he not retarded? Am I wrong here? How can you defend that?

>>59439737
expecting it to support all names is not retarded, that's just being reasonable.

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>>59439737
>naming conventions for filenames
1. You don't even fucking know what the word convention means

2. I hope English isn't your first language

3. I know what you're trying to say and it's fucking stupid. The point is that any restriction is fucking dumb

4. >>59439797

>>59439531
w...what happens?

>>59439819
>any restriction is fucking dumb

It sure is, not knowing what the restriction even is? More so.

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>>59437223
>try to write a bash script that handles every user cases
>have to quote absolutely every string containing filenames because they might contain shell keywords that could turn my script into a file system destroying nightmare

>>59439863
cool fallacy bro you're a fucking idiot

>>59439086
You can't do that in Windows either. Windows filenames are made to be UNIX-compatible in pretty much everything but command line shells. You can enter filepaths such as /folder/file in any Windows software and, unless they're specifically programmed to reject it, it will work, with the presumption that / is the drive of the working directory.

>>59439797
>that's just being reasonable

And look where that got you, I don't lose files because I understand that Windows has certain restrictions, I'd like to think that people on this board knew that, apparently not.

>>59439857
one file will be missing

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>>59439899
Don't let the triggered hit your lost files on the way out, I'm an idiot who doesn't have issues copying files.

What does that make you

>>59439797
expecting windows to not break everything is retarded

>>59439930
wew! epic, i sure didn't guess that would happen

>>59439341
You can do that using Bash for Windows. Explorer will list the file/folder, but anything you attempt to do with them, including reading, writing, moving, etc. will fail, often with a misleading error message.

>>59439925
>expect a reasonable service
>don't get the reasonable service
>haha look at the retard expecting reasonable service :^)

>>59439953
have you ever worked on a bigger project where some people use windows ?

>>59439281
Recycle bin shows as

$Recycle.bin/
     S-1-5-21-userid1/
     S-1-5-21-userid2/

in the root of each partition. You can get your user id on from the registry.

>>59439341
Doing this right now. I'll be back. If Windows kills itself I'm blaming you.

>>59439215
>Wasting several hours to change the fucking folder background
>Looks like an autist fingerpainted on your screen
Not sure

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>>59439154
>all dem crts
I miss them.

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>>59439341
>>59440128
It just does weird shit. Notice how it failed to change the permissions but did it anyway and had no effect.
Sorry it took so long, I'm terrible with video stuff and when I finally got the 150 seconds video down to 3MB, it turned out 4chan also has a time limit.

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>>59437263
>';';ll@$%
>the eternal struggle

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Woah, alright then that's pretty neat.

>>59437351
K

>>59439868
Just use a different scripting language, like python then. Or try fish shell.

>>59437328
Tn

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>>59439624
ok, well i am not really a programmer i really need to learn how to read machine code and language. i am more a database guy.

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I believe there should be an open standard of windows os; or make windows a bsd license -- an open windows platform is great also their souces must be 100 percent free software.

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>>59437223
>implying

There's a trick for folders, you've to rename the folder (right click > rename) adding a "-" symbol before last character ("AU-X") and then rename again (always right click > rename) adding a dot (".") after it ("AU-X.") but works only in windows 7.

>>59437656
You are a big guy

>>59439079

Alex you're fucked

>>59441496
>>59441496
That is a bafflingly specific bug to exploit
how the fuck did you even find out about that shit

Its worse on fat32 filesystems, you cant even have a fucking file with : in its filename

>>59442694
I was too lazy to bother typing the full word. So I tried shit.

>>59437223
This was our favourite way of hiding games on lab computers in college.

When I graduated and got a job, the sysadmin called me over one day because he was having trouble viewing a folder on the IIS webserver.

It turned out that we'd been hacked and under about seven layers of folders with device names and non-printing ASCII control characters, someone had uploaded a bunch of ripped music CDs and we were getting downloads from all over the planet.

Once I found it, it was easy to remove but we just nuked the machine to be sure.

>still got the mp3s, it was Mylene Farmer. Pretty good desu

>>59442768
>ALT-255 a folder, put a transparent icon.
Worked for over 3 years on my old school.

>>59439868
or a whitespace character? this is standard practise

>>59437263
there are better things to do for fun, like playing games

wait

>>59440586
Having a dozen CRTs in a small room with shit ventilation doesn't sound like fun though

>>59439431
You can, just not using Windows explorer. Thanks nutella

>>59439531
Having 2 files with the same name but different case is considered very bad practice even in OSes with full case sensitivity though.

>>59437223
>windows
>can't make a file that starts with a dot
>open notepad
>save as
>All types
>type ".name"
>save
>it fucking works

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It works for me OP

>>59439154
If I copy text files to PRN from cmd, will Windows print them like DOS did?

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Works On My Machine ;)

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>>59437223
>>59437263
ITT: people who are literally retarded.

>>59437263
"My OS"
It's not yours, retard, you are the END USER LOL
FAGGOT

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>>59437351

>>59437223
Maybe it's because AUX cord or something?

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>>59437263

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>>59442667

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You can create that folder all you want, just get a different file manager.

>>59443436
try ".name."

>>59437223
This is a part of Windows' legacy. You can't create folders whose names match system devices.