Disabling Auto Recording games?

[h2oz7v]

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]

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]

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]

You can shorten steps 3 to 6 by pressing shift+del.

Yeah, my post said that all along. Really. ;)

[evilworm2]

You can try my ReplayEater (http://wiki.thecybershadow.net/ReplayEater).

[h2oz7v]

Rinsed :(

Thanks Evil Worm 2, I'll check it oooot

[MadEwokHerd]

Has anyone tried deleting the Games directory and putting a file there called Games instead?

Not that I'd recommend disabling the recording..

[Distrance]

Does that actually work ? That sounds so simple and so genious...gotta try it

[MadEwokHerd]

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]

i never realised a file with no extension is treated as a folder and vice versa.

[Lex]

MEH, have you tried that? I have not. Can anyone verify that that works?

[GrimOswald]

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]

Ha, it just crashes, like I thought it would.

[MadEwokHerd]

i never realised a file with no extension is treated as a folder and vice versa.

Uh, what? No it's not..

[evilworm2]

Maybe a shortcut to the trash bin could work?

[Distrance]

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]

create a symlink to recycle bin then..

[franpa]

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]

The simple explanation is that you can't have a file and a folder with the same name.

[evilworm2]

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]

I can see where this thread is going http://www.nanacide.com/images/Emoticons/colbert.gif

[Dando]

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]

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]

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]

You probably have windows explorer set to hide extensions from you. Fix it.

[canofworms]

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]

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]

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]

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]

Deltree asks for confirmation by default, you could slap on a /Y to delete the folder without a confirmation.

[canofworms]

It has been so long since I have touched DOS :P

[AndrewTaylor]

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]

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]

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]

Don't forget "D:" by itself on a line to change the active drive as well. CD doesn't change the active drive.

[h2oz7v]

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]

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.