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Dear fair goons, I have a computer in my garage, which I rarely use - it was once a great and mighty machine, but with age I decommissioned many years ago and relegated to playing pandora and web browsing and such. I am going to formally wipe it down and garage sale it, but I came across a small mystery. Its 500GB hard drive is almost full, which took me by surprise. I windirstat'd the beast, and found a 405GB "archive.afs" file in my drive root. hurrayyy. I've used the machine for data recovery before, so I am wondering if there was some long forgotten backup I made or something, but 30 minutes of googling later and trying every archive program I know of, no dice. I broke out a hex editor to see if I could see any clues, but nogo there either - or at least it's punching above my ability to decypher what the heck it is - just looks like a giant compressed file to me. Pretty sure it's just a giant virus cache or something. Anyone got any suggestions for figuring out what the heck before I nuke the drive?   edit : last modified / accessed date is mid 2015, which makes me wonder about its possible legitimacy. I'd think something nasty would be reading/writing to it pretty frequently... mindphlux fucked around with this message at 00:42 on Aug 21, 2016 |
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Aug 21, 2016 00:05
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All I know is that afs is a compression file format that was used to compress poo poo on PS2 disk. There's a utility called AFS file explorer (google that poo poo, if you get hits about PS2 games, that's your baby), throw that in a VM and see if it does the trick. Curious to see what's in here. And if it's my porn collection, I want it back, dammit.
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Aug 21, 2016 04:34
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Its from a software called 'Axxon Next' from AxxonSoft. (Open Platform Video Management Software) The .afs is a video storage file system inside a file container.
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Aug 21, 2016 20:02
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Thank you for solving my mystery! Playstation archive was a nogo, but Axxon is the key! Long story, but that nailed it.
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Aug 22, 2016 00:22
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So was it like real full length porn rips or 9000 amateur 1 minute clips from kazaa
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Aug 22, 2016 04:13
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THE DOG HOUSE posted:So was it like real full length porn rips or 9000 amateur 1 minute clips from kazaa mostly kazaa and edonkey2k clips, things got really loving weird and I had to smash the drive with a sledgehammer in the end v  vya win some ya lose some
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Aug 22, 2016 05:25
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mindphlux posted:things got really loving weird and I had to smash the drive with a sledgehammer in the end v That raises even more questions of what was on it hah
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Sep 3, 2016 23:50
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just what kind of pandora stations were you subscribed to?
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Sep 6, 2016 12:39
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