Computer Questions Not Worth Their Own Thread II

[cardgame]

You can try rarzilla.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I tried several extractors and none worked. But I found another source for the file so it's ok

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I have another question: Sometimes I'll open up a savegame file for various games in a text editor to see whats inside. Sometimes its text-based but most of the time its a binary-based file so it comes out garbage characters. But sometimes I can see words in the middle of the garbage. Whats this?

 

[IglooDame]

I have another question: Sometimes I'll open up a savegame file for various games in a text editor to see whats inside. Sometimes its text-based but most of the time its a binary-based file so it comes out garbage characters. But sometimes I can see words in the middle of the garbage. Whats this?

Text fields.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

That makes sense.

Another question: Sometimes a website will have an annoying background. I use AdBlock Plus to get rid of it. Am I the only one?

 

[SuperJay]

EDIT, nevermind.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I had a large uncompressed PCM WAV file. I encoded it to FLAC at level 5. Yet the FLAC is larger than the original file. What are the possible causes of this?

 

[ParadigmShifter]

Well you can always construct a pathological case which gets bigger when you try and compress it (with any compression method that is lossless). It can happen by accident as well.

Solution: try another compression method or don't compress the file.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Well you can always construct a pathological case which gets bigger when you try and compress it (with any compression method that is lossless). It can happen by accident as well.

Solution: try another compression method or don't compress the file.

Well with some compression archives there's overhead and thus trying to compress a file of a few bytes will make it bigger.

I think I figured out the FLAC issue. I encoded it as 24-bit. When I changed that to 16-bit it came out much smaller.

 

[J-man]

I have 2 computers (a desktop and a laptop) and I use an external HDD to save my back up files from the desktop, made with the build in windows back up utility. Can I use the external HDD to save the back up from my laptop?

Edit: I found the answer. It's possible.

 

[shadowplay]

I failed to back-up a folder properly before I re-installed Windows about a month ago. I'm only realizing my blunder now. What are my options for data recovery at this point? The files aren't important enough to spend $$ recovering.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I failed to back-up a folder properly before I re-installed Windows about a month ago. I'm only realizing my blunder now. What are my options for data recovery at this point? The files aren't important enough to spend $$ recovering.

A month ago? Not very good.

 

[Turner]

I failed to back-up a folder properly before I re-installed Windows about a month ago. I'm only realizing my blunder now. What are my options for data recovery at this point? The files aren't important enough to spend $$ recovering.

Depends on what kind of format you did when you reloaded. Probably not very good though. You might find some kind of undelete program, or a program that will scan the actual sectors of the hard drive instead of looking at a VTOC or somesuch. But the longer it's been the less likely it is to recover. Even with spending money.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Heres a question: I want to backup the savegames of a certain game but I have no idea where they're kept. Is there some sort of tool or something that'll bring up the location of a file when its accessed by the game? I don't think I'm explaining this real good.

 

[shadowplay]

Heres a question: I want to backup the savegames of a certain game but I have no idea where they're kept. Is there some sort of tool or something that'll bring up the location of a file when its accessed by the game? I don't think I'm explaining this real good.

I would google "location saved game folder (name of game)".

Depends on what kind of format you did when you reloaded. Probably not very good though. You might find some kind of undelete program, or a program that will scan the actual sectors of the hard drive instead of looking at a VTOC or somesuch. But the longer it's been the less likely it is to recover. Even with spending money.

Thanks for the advice. Lucky for me, I found a back-up of that folder on an older computer.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I would google "location saved game folder (name of game)".

Tried that. No luck.

EDIT: But I forgot to mention -- I emailed the developer about it and they just sent a message back saying it was in the registry?!?! Thats odd. But I found it and saved the registry hive.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Which leads to another question: I know how to manually back up a registry hive, but is there some automatic task scheduler way? I googled it but it appears to backup the entire thing

 

[ParadigmShifter]

You can save it as a .reg file (right click a node then select Export).

EDIT: Dunno how to do that as a scheduled task though.

 

[Bratmon]

Look up the REG command.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

This is probably a very very simple question but I've struggled for an hour to try to do it and I think I'll ask from scratch.

I have a video file. I want to host it on my site and create an HTML file that has some form of a flash player that will play the video when you click it. The webhost has FFMPEG enabled. I can encode the video to another format if needed.

How do I do this?