Any ideas what this is? .. file called "~"

[David W. Hodgins]

i have been using Outlook Express for years and only recently did the "~"
file appear so it must be something other than adding deleting and amending

The file first started appearing, on the desktop, after
installation of an MS update back in March, or April.
After applying the update from the next month, it
started appearing in the root directory instead.

Regards, Dave Hodgins

 

[FromTheRafters]

The file first started appearing, on the desktop, after
installation of an MS update back in March, or April.
After applying the update from the next month, it
started appearing in the root directory instead.

That's progress. It reminds me of working on high power HF
transmitters. You start out with a problem in the divider chain
or the synthesizer, fix that and you fire it up only to find it has
intermods revealed by the spectrum analyser - troubleshoot
that to the exciter stack, squeeze that out through the IPA, to
the FPA, and when you squeeze that gremlin out into the switch
matrix ~ it becomes the antenna rigger's problem.

I fixed many units that way. ;o)

 

[cquirke]

The file first started appearing, on the desktop, after
installation of an MS update back in March, or April.
After applying the update from the next month, it
started appearing in the root directory instead.

The file is supposed to be C:\Correct\Path\filename~.wab (or is that
C:\Correct\Path\~filename.wab) but due to a fundamental screw-up,
becomes {current\path}~{.} instead - i.e. either proper name and
path never populate the buffer, or the buffer isn't pointed to by what
appends the ~ to it before using that as the file spec.

With coding like that getting into the wild (and remaining unfixed for
what, how many months later?) it's no wonder we have an endless
barrage of "unchecked buffer" screwups from MS.

Meantime, we have OE throwing a nice known-name file full of useful
information around several guessable locations. And we are told not
to worry about this, it's "harmless", and MS is working on it.

Mmm...NOT(OK)

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