Anyone use IrfanView

[Davros]

When doing a file save as it went to my c: drive and i noticed there where some files ive not noticed before
so i cancelled went to c: drive in explorer (show hiden and system files and show protected operating system files enabled) and they wernt there I also used ultra search and it couldnt find then either. i also tried a few other file finding programs. Anyone else tried this ? why is infranview the only program that can see these files ?
I then used infranview to delete them.
ps: when restored from recycle bin they became visible.

From my recycle bin:

 

[MfA]

I assume you mean Irfanview? I don't see any extra files.

What's in the PAK and logfiles?

 

[Davros]

I never opened the pack file
I opened the log file it looked like an xml file cant remember the contents
i do know f22.$$$ was created by f22 total air war over 6 months ago but then deleted on another drive that was c: that drive was cloned
onto the ssd I have now

edit: thats got me thinking, those files could be lost clusters or something (still on the disk but not in the fat or whatever the ntfs equiv is)
and because the clone software does a sector by sector copy they were picked up ?
still strange irfanview was the only program that could see them

 

[Babel-17]

I don't see that and I have IrfanView. Were you running anything else? I once found out that Disk Cleanup creates a lot of temp files when it's running. Maybe some program kicked in when you ran IrfanView and then exited as you quit IrfanView, and also got rid of its temp files. Though writing to C: is considered odd.

 

[Davros]

I first noticed the files several days ago, only today since i was using irfanview again did i decide to delete them
from within irfranview's file save as dialog

 

[Blazkowicz]

"Anyone use InfranView"

I used XnView . I'm sure both are excellent.
I put it on an uncle's computer when I saw his way of viewing dozens/hundreds pictures downloaded from digital camera. He would look at the pictures one by one using the very small preview in the left pane of Windows 98's file manager, with about a couple seconds for it to load every time. So I thought something like "Oh, god".
I then "upgraded" him from 1024x768 60Hz with black borders on all sides to 75Hz with all the monitor's visible surface covered.

It was both awesome and hilarious, now people have it better with every OS including a picture aware file manager and a basic viewer.

 

[hoom]

<- Xnview

 

[Simon F]

I use XnView - partly for the convenient image format conversion but also because it has a reasonable, up to 4 way, image comparison view feature.

 

[Dominik D]

+1 on XnView

But on the topic of hidden files - perhaps this?
http://i.imgur.com/xxaN8lD.png

 

[Davros]

But on the topic of hidden files - perhaps this?
http://i.imgur.com/xxaN8lD.png

Really ?

so i cancelled went to c: drive in explorer (show hidden and system files and show protected operating system files enabled) and they wernt there

 

[Blazkowicz]

Or what about dir /o/a ?
(If the system is really consistent in having the files particularly "hidden", they shouldn't show up in a "dir" either)

 

[Davros]

Ive got rid of them now

 

[Dominik D]

Really ?

Damn, I feel stupid. Flog me.

 

[Davros]

I would but shifty's bitch says he's in charge of the whipping here