Is there a way of disabling this as I dont particularly use it and I'm ending up with hundreds of unused files (which does start taking up some space).

Its a good feature but perhaps there should be an option for it?

Step 1: Find your Worms Armageddon folder and go into /user/games.

Step 2: Press Ctrl+A.

Step 3: Press Shift+Del.

Step 4: Confirm.

Ta da! Though you probably want to create a folder somewhere so you can put games you do want to keep there after just playing them, that way they don't get lost amongst a flood of recordings and get deleted through my handy steps.

Step 3: Right click on one of them.

Step 4: Choose Delete.

Step 5: Confirm.

Step 6: Remove them from the Recycle Bin.
You can shorten steps 3 to 6 by pressing shift+del.

You can shorten steps 3 to 6 by pressing shift+del.

Yeah, my post said that all along. Really. ;)

You can try my ReplayEater (http://wiki.thecybershadow.net/ReplayEater).

Rinsed :(

Thanks Evil Worm 2, I'll check it oooot

Has anyone tried deleting the Games directory and putting a file there called Games instead?

Not that I'd recommend disabling the recording..

Does that actually work ? That sounds so simple and so genious...gotta try it

Well, the program probably won't delete the file and put a directory there. But I don't know if it'll go on without creating replays or just fail.

i never realised a file with no extension is treated as a folder and vice versa.

MEH, have you tried that? I have not. Can anyone verify that that works?

I tried it, and when you try to start a game you get that Send Error Report message thingy and it exits to the desktop.

Ha, it just crashes, like I thought it would.

i never realised a file with no extension is treated as a folder and vice versa.

Uh, what? No it's not..

Maybe a shortcut to the trash bin could work?

Im not quite sure what you mean. I made shortcut from trash bin, renamed to games and even made the icon to be folder, started a game, when returning, the game had created folder called games so at least that didnt work..

create a symlink to recycle bin then..

Uh, what? No it's not..

well, i know its just i cant think of explaining it without typing a hella lots more words :) hope you understand.

~franpa

The simple explanation is that you can't have a file and a folder with the same name.

The simple explanation is that you can't have a file and a folder with the same name.

This is because a folder IS a file. ;)

A folder is a special file that contains names of other folders and files plus other information like size, time of change, etc.

I can see where this thread is going http://www.nanacide.com/images/Emoticons/colbert.gif

whatever it is called, it doesn't work. The game crashes , as said, when it tries to access the fake folder.

So, we need new ideas.:p

thats the error i get if i make a file called games (no extension) and have the game use that.

AppName: wa.exe AppVer: 3.6.26.5 ModName: ntdll.dll
ModVer: 5.1.2600.2180 Offset: 00001010

I dont get error,I can make file and rename it to Games and go to play, when I come back the game created folder called Games and then the folder is two exatcly same named files Games and Games lol..

You probably have windows explorer set to hide extensions from you. Fix it.

Well, thats not as stupid as it sounds. With a little help from Linux, I was able to have folders called COM, LPT and others which are illegal under Windows, and I did get 2 folders of the same name once, dont know how I go that... (mabey I hexedited one of my VMware disks).

Did you name those folders the same but in different case? ;)
I know that "works" (or worked) in CaptiveNTFS, which got me quite annoyed in Windows (I could only access the 1st).

I've seen people put strange characters into folder names which makes them pretty hard to manipulate/delete.

Back on the original topic, you could always just make a batch file to delete the logs once they're made. I think someone uploaded such a file here once, but making one yourself would be quicker. You could even make one that deleted them, and then ran W:A, and replace your W:A shortcut with it. That would mean you'd only ever have a few of them around, and it'd give you a chance to save a replay of any matches you did want recording.

I've seen people put strange characters into folder names which makes them pretty hard to manipulate/delete.

Back on the original topic, you could always just make a batch file to delete the logs once they're made. I think someone uploaded such a file here once, but making one yourself would be quicker. You could even make one that deleted them, and then ran W:A, and replace your W:A shortcut with it. That would mean you'd only ever have a few of them around, and it'd give you a chance to save a replay of any matches you did want recording.


deltree "C:\Team17\Worms Armageddon\User\Games"
"C:\Team17\Worms Armageddon\wa.exe"


Use at own risk. I do not take responsability for any damages caused by using that script.

Thats just a demonstration though =)

Deltree asks for confirmation by default, you could slap on a /Y to delete the folder without a confirmation.

It has been so long since I have touched DOS :P

It has been so long since I have touched DOS :P

Sorry, if you use XP it's still not DOS. It's the Windows Console.

You'll probably never see DOS again. If you're lucky.

Cool its getting somewhere.

However in XP deltree has been replaced by:

rmdir /s

adding /q for no confirmation.

I've tried that and it works, however it wouldnt work with the space in between "Worms Armageddon" (Couldnt find the specified path) and since I dunno how to get cmd to understand the space, I renamed my WA folder to "Worms_Armageddon" - and as I dont have any registries with it, its okay.

So so far my batch is looking like this:

rmdir /s /q "D:\Games\Worms_Armageddon\User\Games"
"D:\Games\Worms_Armageddon\wa.exe" /nointro

It deletes the Games folder fine, but WA loads and then crashes straight away....

hmm

You can get old 8.3 filenames by rightclicking -- it'll probably be WORMSA~1, or you can put the entire path, with spaces, in double quotes ("..."). That's pretty standard; I assume all XP console commands accept it.

Edit: If that crashes it, either delete the contents of the folder, not the folder itself, or try setting the working directory properly:

rmdir /s /q "D:\Games\Worms_Armageddon\User\Games"
cd "D:\Games\Worms_Armageddon\"
wa.exe /nointro

Don't forget "D:" by itself on a line to change the active drive as well. CD doesn't change the active drive.

Nice! I got it working, thanks people!

Here is the code I used:
rmdir /s /q "D:\Games\Worms Armageddon\User\Games"
D:
cd "D:\Games\Worms Armageddon\"
wa.exe /nointro

Its also functional because if I do ever end up with a replay I want to keep, I can either take the replay out of the folder or record it with fraps before running the script again.

AndrewTaylor: Don't worry, I always have a DOS install in QEMU. I can't live without it sadly.

All those lost days of playing Civilization and Theater of WAR. Shame the Civ disks went bad, but atleast there is the amiga version too.