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modfreak
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_ 		24. October 2005 @ 14:51 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Hi i am downloading a game and i extracted it but there are files like FILES.03.DAT AND FILES.DAT AND SO ON THAT ARE 1GB each.Do i delete those files or do i keep them?
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_ 		24. October 2005 @ 16:29 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
thats a real files ,i think dummyfiles are small like 1bite
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_ 		24. October 2005 @ 17:07 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Dummy files 1 byte?

I don't think so...i think they're pretty big. Not sure if 1 gb would be the right size, but usually they're called Dummy.DAT or Garbage.DAT or something like that.
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_ 		24. October 2005 @ 17:26 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
and arent the like 1a.dat,2a.dat,3a.dat something like that
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modfreak
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_ 		24. October 2005 @ 18:13 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
well theyres alot of other ones like 440mb and stuff and theyer was this game that i downloaded that was 3.44gb in size but when it finihed downloading,it turned to 4.50gb.This is the game that i had trouble with.I burned it but when i used swap magic,the screen kept on flickering and flashing.Was it because theyre was a dummy file or was 4.6gb to big of a file to play for swap magic?And this agme is killzone.Can someone help me?
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