[QUOTE=Pezzy;2843992]Hi
fratermus &
iPatty; thanks for your replies!
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OK.....I was not aware of the term "*nix style hiding".
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It means unix-ish OSes: unix, linux, BSD, etc.
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After reading this here from your post, I went browsing through my Kindle Fire using ES File Explorer, and I think I saw what you meant, that is, files whose names began with a period at the front of the name, e.g., ".file".
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Right.
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obvious Movie & Video folders). But what did you mean by, "...or the missing space is taken up with something else rather than the file in question..."?
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That we think the file is currently on the device because the available storage space has been reduced. It could be a red herring. At this point we don't know because we haven't found the file.
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be in an .mp4 format. Do you think the file is NOT actually named by the name given to the movie itself? But that it does begin with a period at the beginning of the name? And will it have the .mp4 suffix?
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I have seen DRM downloads that had long (hexadecimal?) filenames that had no correllation to the content. I am thinking of Google Books being read on the Android platform here.
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But when clicking on "/" in the top tool bar, this seems to bring up folders/ files that were previously hidden or system files/ folders.
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Right. "/" means root (in *nix OSes); it's the the base of the filesystem. It would be something like C:\ in the windows world.
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Dang! I wish I could find this movie file! I purchased it, not rented it. I should be able to have the option/ capability of making an archival back-up copy of it. If I purchase a Blu-ray disc, the store does not hold onto it for me when I'm not using/ watching it.
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Preach, brother! :-)
DRM schemes thwart the reasonable desires of paying customers in a failed attempt to defeat piracy. I haven't read Amazon's video purchase policy but my guess is we buy a license rather than the product itself. Or rather that the product is the license rather than the movie.