make empty file with specified size

[DABhand]

Originally Posted by qwerty12341

1)Unfortunately I dont speak giberish, what you said made no sense, hence why I asked you to say it more clearly.
RE:
i think that showing the picture and explaining what i need about it (remember i need the size on disk to be negligible and the size to be alot: like shown (in red)at this link : http://schee.bloguje.cz//Snap3.jpg
thanks!) is perfectly clear
2)Bonehead? Oh dear, perhaps if you match my knowledge of things or greater then call me bonehead.
RE:i hope that your knowledge of things is not limited to knowing what dc++ is (you seemed to realise what DC++ is very quickly.)
3)But since you cant read the rules about flaming, I dont think you will be around long enough to see what happens to this thread.
RE: I don't think that sarcastic responses :
(You need a huge file size for a program, but you dont have the space Enlighten me with what you mean lol)
(Why so you can fool many DC++ clients into thinking you are sharing more than you have?
Why else would you want this done?)
are either what is supposed to be posted on threads
4)Also when I asked you for more information on what your doing with the file, you got very very defensively attacking, i.e. protective as if you dont want to say what your real reason is and you cant think up an alternative to say why you need a small file that shows up as more.
RE:i gave enough information and if you must know what it is for(which should be obvious-the part about the size of my hard drive) i need a program(a mega-file shrinking program) to load a specific mega-file size to test it for a friend,but my pitiful hard drive can't hold more than 40gb,so i thought that theoretically if there was a file that the computer THOUGHT was bigger so the program would also think so and would "shrink" this file too(even though it's under the minimum size)
5)Basically what I wanted after your reply to mine, was to know what you were trying to use (program) that way we could have helped, but with the way you attacked me im more inclined to think my first guess was correct. You have only yourself to blame.
RE:as i stated before, if you were trying to help me then you wouldn't be making those sarcastic replys

so far you've been a great help thanks a million!
and your very arrogant (i'm attacking you[protective]?,you're making comments about how i'm like this loser who needs to leech file-sharing networks,i actually happen not to use p2ps (although i used to)
but if you can't help the please don't post

As GLH says best keep how you respond to a minimum.. I only responded before due to your attack, im not gonna sit down and take that.


1. I assumed DC++ straight away, then I asked why else would you need it, as in what other reason would you need a small file and for what program. You took this as an attack when it wasnt.

2. Now its a bit more clear when you give us information on the program your using, even if you havent said what its called. But a re-sizing program will not work on a fake file since it isnt the full size. It will cause errors, as its reported to be (using the pic for an example) 160GB but when it tries to compress it only sees 988kb on disk so it wont know what tracks/sectors on the hard disk to look at.

3. The pic itself could be a screenshot from a folder inside a zip archive, where a file or series of files have 0 bytes to that size. Or the more easiest and more probably explanation is the guy took a pic of his folder of a torrent download.

Torrent clients set aside space on the HD with empty files that actually look like the full size of a file, but will fill it up eventually, so the 988kb could be what he got so far of the 160GB. Dunno what hes grabbing but must be something silly lol

But for the zip example, if you make a file 160gb big mostly 0's inside, and zip it it will compress to a very small size. And Windows Explorer can open these zips and look inside. (if on XP)