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h2oz7v
17 Dec 2006, 23:50
Is there a way of disabling this as I dont particularly use it and I'm ending up with hundreds of unused files (which does start taking up some space).
Its a good feature but perhaps there should be an option for it?

GrimOswald
18 Dec 2006, 00:09
Step 1: Find your Worms Armageddon folder and go into /user/games.
Step 2: Press Ctrl+A.
Step 3: Press Shift+Del.
Step 4: Confirm.
Ta da! Though you probably want to create a folder somewhere so you can put games you do want to keep there after just playing them, that way they don't get lost amongst a flood of recordings and get deleted through my handy steps.

bonz
18 Dec 2006, 02:40
Step 3: Right click on one of them.
Step 4: Choose Delete.
Step 5: Confirm.
Step 6: Remove them from the Recycle Bin.
You can shorten steps 3 to 6 by pressing shift+del.

GrimOswald
18 Dec 2006, 03:30
You can shorten steps 3 to 6 by pressing shift+del.
Yeah, my post said that all along. Really. ;)

evilworm2
18 Dec 2006, 19:46
You can try my ReplayEater (http://wiki.thecybershadow.net/ReplayEater).

h2oz7v
19 Dec 2006, 01:24
Rinsed :(
Thanks Evil Worm 2, I'll check it oooot

MadEwokHerd
24 Dec 2006, 16:01
Has anyone tried deleting the Games directory and putting a file there called Games instead?
Not that I'd recommend disabling the recording..

Distrance
24 Dec 2006, 16:24
Does that actually work ? That sounds so simple and so genious...gotta try it

MadEwokHerd
24 Dec 2006, 17:43
Well, the program probably won't delete the file and put a directory there. But I don't know if it'll go on without creating replays or just fail.

franpa
25 Dec 2006, 07:38
i never realised a file with no extension is treated as a folder and vice versa.

Lex
25 Dec 2006, 09:10
MEH, have you tried that? I have not. Can anyone verify that that works?

GrimOswald
25 Dec 2006, 10:51
I tried it, and when you try to start a game you get that Send Error Report message thingy and it exits to the desktop.

Lex
25 Dec 2006, 13:33
Ha, it just crashes, like I thought it would.

MadEwokHerd
25 Dec 2006, 13:59
i never realised a file with no extension is treated as a folder and vice versa.
Uh, what? No it's not..

evilworm2
25 Dec 2006, 16:58
Maybe a shortcut to the trash bin could work?

Distrance
25 Dec 2006, 20:47
Im not quite sure what you mean. I made shortcut from trash bin, renamed to games and even made the icon to be folder, started a game, when returning, the game had created folder called games so at least that didnt work..

Plutonic
25 Dec 2006, 23:15
create a symlink to recycle bin then..

franpa
25 Dec 2006, 23:52
Uh, what? No it's not..
well, i know its just i cant think of explaining it without typing a hella lots more words :) hope you understand.
~franpa

Vercetti
26 Dec 2006, 00:47
The simple explanation is that you can't have a file and a folder with the same name.

evilworm2
26 Dec 2006, 01:22
The simple explanation is that you can't have a file and a folder with the same name.
This is because a folder IS a file. ;)
A folder is a special file that contains names of other folders and files plus other information like size, time of change, etc.

Run
26 Dec 2006, 09:24
I can see where this thread is going http://www.nanacide.com/images/Emoticons/colbert.gif

Dando
26 Dec 2006, 11:44
whatever it is called, it doesn't work. The game crashes , as said, when it tries to access the fake folder.
So, we need new ideas.:p

franpa
26 Dec 2006, 12:02
thats the error i get if i make a file called games (no extension) and have the game use that.
AppName: wa.exe AppVer: 3.6.26.5 ModName: ntdll.dll
ModVer: 5.1.2600.2180 Offset: 00001010

Distrance
26 Dec 2006, 16:01
I dont get error,I can make file and rename it to Games and go to play, when I come back the game created folder called Games and then the folder is two exatcly same named files Games and Games lol..

MadEwokHerd
26 Dec 2006, 21:40
You probably have windows explorer set to hide extensions from you. Fix it.

canofworms
1 Jan 2007, 07:59
Well, thats not as stupid as it sounds. With a little help from Linux, I was able to have folders called COM, LPT and others which are illegal under Windows, and I did get 2 folders of the same name once, dont know how I go that... (mabey I hexedited one of my VMware disks).

CyberShadow
1 Jan 2007, 14:47
Did you name those folders the same but in different case? ;)
I know that "works" (or worked) in CaptiveNTFS, which got me quite annoyed in Windows (I could only access the 1st).

AndrewTaylor
1 Jan 2007, 15:05
I've seen people put strange characters into folder names which makes them pretty hard to manipulate/delete.
Back on the original topic, you could always just make a batch file to delete the logs once they're made. I think someone uploaded such a file here once, but making one yourself would be quicker. You could even make one that deleted them, and then ran W:A, and replace your W:A shortcut with it. That would mean you'd only ever have a few of them around, and it'd give you a chance to save a replay of any matches you did want recording.

canofworms
1 Jan 2007, 16:47
I've seen people put strange characters into folder names which makes them pretty hard to manipulate/delete.
Back on the original topic, you could always just make a batch file to delete the logs once they're made. I think someone uploaded such a file here once, but making one yourself would be quicker. You could even make one that deleted them, and then ran W:A, and replace your W:A shortcut with it. That would mean you'd only ever have a few of them around, and it'd give you a chance to save a replay of any matches you did want recording.
deltree "C:\Team17\Worms Armageddon\User\Games"
"C:\Team17\Worms Armageddon\wa.exe"
Use at own risk. I do not take responsability for any damages caused by using that script.
Thats just a demonstration though =)

CyberShadow
1 Jan 2007, 19:47
Deltree asks for confirmation by default, you could slap on a /Y to delete the folder without a confirmation.

canofworms
1 Jan 2007, 20:00
It has been so long since I have touched DOS :P

AndrewTaylor
1 Jan 2007, 23:23
It has been so long since I have touched DOS :P
Sorry, if you use XP it's still not DOS. It's the Windows Console.
You'll probably never see DOS again. If you're lucky.

h2oz7v
1 Jan 2007, 23:26
Cool its getting somewhere.
However in XP deltree has been replaced by:
rmdir /s
adding /q for no confirmation.
I've tried that and it works, however it wouldnt work with the space in between "Worms Armageddon" (Couldnt find the specified path) and since I dunno how to get cmd to understand the space, I renamed my WA folder to "Worms_Armageddon" - and as I dont have any registries with it, its okay.
So so far my batch is looking like this:
rmdir /s /q "D:\Games\Worms_Armageddon\User\Games"
"D:\Games\Worms_Armageddon\wa.exe" /nointro
It deletes the Games folder fine, but WA loads and then crashes straight away....
hmm

AndrewTaylor
1 Jan 2007, 23:39
You can get old 8.3 filenames by rightclicking -- it'll probably be WORMSA~1, or you can put the entire path, with spaces, in double quotes ("..."). That's pretty standard; I assume all XP console commands accept it.
Edit: If that crashes it, either delete the contents of the folder, not the folder itself, or try setting the working directory properly:
rmdir /s /q "D:\Games\Worms_Armageddon\User\Games"
cd "D:\Games\Worms_Armageddon\"
wa.exe /nointro

CyberShadow
2 Jan 2007, 00:13
Don't forget "D:" by itself on a line to change the active drive as well. CD doesn't change the active drive.

h2oz7v
2 Jan 2007, 00:47
Nice! I got it working, thanks people!
Here is the code I used:
rmdir /s /q "D:\Games\Worms Armageddon\User\Games"
D:
cd "D:\Games\Worms Armageddon\"
wa.exe /nointro
Its also functional because if I do ever end up with a replay I want to keep, I can either take the replay out of the folder or record it with fraps before running the script again.

canofworms
2 Jan 2007, 07:04
AndrewTaylor: Don't worry, I always have a DOS install in QEMU. I can't live without it sadly.
All those lost days of playing Civilization and Theater of WAR. Shame the Civ disks went bad, but atleast there is the amiga version too.

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