Time to join the discussion about the startfiles that I have introduced at my website
http://www.museekster.com.
I am impressed by the job that Indiana has done. I must confess that the way I make startfiles is less sophisticated.
This is how I do it.
Once I have discovered a high quality file, I again run a search with Grokster. After the identical file has shown up in my searchresults I cut off my internetconnection and hit the download button. Of course the download will not start but Grokster creates a datfile in your downloadfolder. That file is your startfile and ready for use.
The datfile is filled with a part of your free disk space and data like the usernames, filename and destination folder.
The free disk space that is included in this datfile may contain strange things.
Free disk space is not clean. It contains parts of files that have been deleted. When making a startfile this erased data becomes “active”. Part of video and music files are brought back to life. In a worst case scenario even a deleted virus can get activated and you spread it all around the planet in your startfile. Furthermore this data may prevent compressing the startfile to the smallest possible size.
I keep my free disk space clean with a utility called Eraser.
Eraser can be found at
http://www.tolvanen.com/eraser/
One thing I have not figured out is how to edit these datfiles.
For instance changing the path or deleting usernames would be nice.
The datfiles can be opened with wordpad or a hexeditor but every change in the file is deadly. Maybe Indiana has a solution for this.
BTW. Nice board! The attachments option makes it a great place for exchanging startfiles.