What is Scrap

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Here's a good one I can't find an answer to. There is no big deal on
this, just trying to find a ("logical") answer.
A friend of mine, his daughter got married last month. She sent her
dad several emails with pictures from the wedding.
After he opened his he mail, looked at the pictures, he saved them
from the email to his CD.
Now, after he opens the CD to read the file names, they are all named
scraped!
Any ideas or thoughts.
Thanks for the time.

Dan (Still going in circles)

 

[Wesley Vogel]

WD: What Is a Scrap (.shs) File?
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;138275

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

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[Don Taylor]

Here's a good one I can't find an answer to. There is no big deal on
this, just trying to find a ("logical") answer.
A friend of mine, his daughter got married last month. She sent her
dad several emails with pictures from the wedding.
After he opened his he mail, looked at the pictures, he saved them
from the email to his CD.
Now, after he opens the CD to read the file names, they are all named
scraped!
Any ideas or thoughts.
Thanks for the time.

Dan (Still going in circles)

I'm not absolutely certain but I think this might give you an idea
what happened:

http://www.pc-help.org/security/scrap.htm

Rough short description, among all the various different ways that
Microsoft has tried to package and export information from programs
they came up with the "Scrap" idea.

Like many of the "features" they have introduced, this little gem
was instantly seen as a gaping security hole and many of the virus
attacks have used exactly this to hijack systems.

Scrap is one more way you can stuff information or executable code
into a file and pass it to another program or another computer.
It is not necessary that this information or package is damaging
but many people and security measures will be very cautious with this.

 

[Steve N.]

Here's a good one I can't find an answer to. There is no big deal on
this, just trying to find a ("logical") answer.
A friend of mine, his daughter got married last month. She sent her
dad several emails with pictures from the wedding.
After he opened his he mail, looked at the pictures, he saved them
from the email to his CD.
Now, after he opens the CD to read the file names, they are all named
scraped!
Any ideas or thoughts.
Thanks for the time.

Dan (Still going in circles)

Scrap is crap with an s at the beginning.

Have friend save to local hard disk first, verify the picture files open
from there and then burn to CD.

Steve

 

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I want to thank you all for the information. I originally told him to
go back and save to the desktop and then copy to the CD. Since I had
not heard of this file type before, I thought I would try and do a
little research and see who out here may have heard or dealt with this
type file.
Again, thanks for the feed back.

Dan (Still going in circles)

 

[Steve N.]

I want to thank you all for the information. I originally told him to
go back and save to the desktop and then copy to the CD. Since I had
not heard of this file type before, I thought I would try and do a
little research and see who out here may have heard or dealt with this
type file.
Again, thanks for the feed back.

Dan (Still going in circles)

Try upward spirals. You don't see the same things over and over so often
that way. Or at least you get to see them all from a different perspective.

Steve