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Nofear19
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_ 		29. September 2005 @ 14:55 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
ok i used iso buster to extract the files from the silent hill 4 iso file, and theres a dummy file(DUMMY.DAT). so i created a text file in notepad, put a space, and saved it as DUMMY.DAT. i copied it into the silent hill folder with the iso files in it, but it wont over write the original file... i renamed it to just DUMMY to see if that would work and it still wouldnt over write the original. so how do i do it?
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poolpro
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_ 		29. September 2005 @ 15:51 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Once you create the new DUMMY file it is safe to delete the original DUMMY.DAT file. That's what I always do and it works all the time.
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Nofear19
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_ 		29. September 2005 @ 16:18 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
so the new file wont over write the old one? you just delete the old one and put the new on in the folder?
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_ 		29. September 2005 @ 16:23 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Yep you just answered your on question
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Nofear19
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_ 		29. September 2005 @ 17:50 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
one more question....... the dummy file is "DUMMY.DAT" like i said earlier, but it is only displayed as "DUMMY". when i create the fake dummy file it is shown as "DUMMY.DAT"...so its just a regular text file (dummy.dat.txt). so do i rename the fake file "dummy" or "dummy.dat"......is there a special way i gotta make the file into an actual dat file?
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Dedlywave
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_ 		30. September 2005 @ 00:05 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Hey, go to the tools menu in your explorer window (XP), then go to folder options. Click on the view tab then uncheck "hide extensions for known filetypes". Now the dummy file should be "Dummy.dat" and the other file will be "Dummy.dat.txt". Delete the the original dummy file and now rename the txt file to dummy.dat. It will ask you to confirm..... And now its fixed. Hope this was the problem
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Nofear19
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_ 		30. September 2005 @ 09:08 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
that worked thanks
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