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[@FlyTechVideos]

Happy 22/2/22, my dear tech flies

[@justluca.a]

Happy 22/2/22 to you too!

[@farmervillager1376]

This only happens once in history. Glad to be a part of it.

[@TadaHrd]

Happy twosday

[@justluca.a]

@@farmervillager1376 it actually happened another time in 1922. So not so once in history lol

[@Rafael-yi5xj]

thank you

[@vladyslavhafanovych24]

Can you imagine the "prank horror virus" that might be created from this madness? Really regret watching that at 3AM - feeling genuinely scared right now. On the other hand - as usual - brilliant video with the most unexpected information. Keep it up!

[@harikomi]

Согласен, лайк и доброй ночи.

[@_GhostMiner]

*What a genius way to hide the homework folder. 😅*

[@Barrelopds89]

Hehehehehehehehehhrhehhehehehrhrhrhe

[@blob8556]

theres another, transparent icon 💀

[@er12c89]

Téže si to myslím :D

[@_GhostMiner]

@@blob8556 ik

[@chri-k]

@@blob8556 a lot of transparent icon folders, all named whitespace. So that group-select ( whatever it’s called ) won’t instantly reveal it.

[@percent2520]

The reason why the space folders link to the desktop is because Explorer sometimes ignores spaces, and so it reads as */Users/Fly/Desktop//* instead of */Users/Fly/Desktop/ /*

[@06NinjaKid06]

i know

[@whee2390]

Interesting how it works fine even with that extra second slash

[@kowan011]

1:34 What? Thumbs.db is evolving! CONGRATULATIONS! Your Thumbs.db evolved into Thumbs.dll!

[@LordSzo]

DB = Data base DLL = Dynamic Link Library

[@greciapalomino.453]

is not a pokemon

[@plantelo]

Interestingly, Windows 2000 doesn't fuss about viewing & editing the contents of a space-only-name folder. None of the jank in the video. It doesn't want to rename/delete it though. You can move its parent to the Recycle Bin (only if it has contents, though); but you can't permanently delete it.

[@blue_dragonized_dolphin]

yeah me too! I tried on windows xp and everything worked but deleting shows me that it can't be read from disk, and the created/modified date doesn't show up in properties

[@epicmemes2998]

What would happen if you put the folder in the C: drive? since it "deletes" the parent folder if you somehow delete it, would it delete the C: drive?

[@fitmotheyap]

Uh oh

[@nishweb]

"Epic memes" yo ur comments funny too

[@GunnerSiIva]

Well, if you do so, try using WSL

[@krisp9403]

it's like "you kill me then i'm dragging you with"

[@minecraftify95]

No, it will give you an error that it's already in use

[@rostislavdubrovsky5514]

I think I have an idea about why does Explorer behave this way. Speaking in terms of CMD, when you try to go to a space-folder from desktop, it tries to "dir C:\Users\fly\Desktop\ ". However, as the path is not enclosed in quotation marks, the space gets treated as a part of a command, and you get the contents of Desktop. When you go into an imaginable sub-subfolder though, it does "dir C:\Users\fly\Desktop\ \ ". Again, the trailing space is discarded, but now there's a slash after the space-directory name, so it gets listed properly. It works with any number of spaces, e.g. "C:\Users\fly\Desktop\ \ " is the same. But whenever you try to access any file from there, it becomes "dir C:\Users\fly\Desktop\ \ \file" which is obviously invalid since there's no actual space-subfolder.

[@notthatntg]

cd*

[@DiscontinuedChannelProbably]

i goddamn hate you correctors*

[@chikkuperla]

Happy to see you post again, your channel is really informative and interesting. Nearing 100K 😁

[@FlyTechVideos]

Thank you

[@nishweb]

I remember doing this on my xp machine back in the day, with the invisible folder icon. Good days

[@GlitchyPSI]

Back when I dealt with my first USB virus I learned how they made an invisible name folder to trick people into running the .lnk that executed the virus, and it was precisely this strange space! I kept messing with my friends making forbidden folder names like CON or PRN or even completely empty folders LOL

[@DA_PROYT_LOL]

0:31 Vsauce Micheal here,Your Motherboard isn’t Broken

[@Kat21]

I did the ALT + 255 trick a few years ago to make all my desktop icons have no filename. It was weird looking at them in explorer but it works just fine on the desktop

[@LDM_YT]

same with the office desktop background (i was 7 lmao)

[@OlioOsterloh]

i guess it displays the contents of the parent folder, because EXPLORER sometimes ignores spaces, so it doesnt read "C:\Users\FlyTechVideos\Desktop\ \" but as "C:\Users\FlyTechVideos\Desktop\\", and since "\\" is as "\", it just will show the contents of the parent folder.

[@Manny73211]

0:44: that's something, I forgot what it was, but you can also use Ctrl+shift+u then type the Unicode which I forgot

[@mtsocool]

You can also make a folder like this with the ALT + (NumPad) 0165 combination. I used this several times and I was able to rename and also delete the folder(s).

[@catto88]

That's fake space, like ALT + 255 too.

[@juliatorre8803]

my keyboard is delayed it inputs ¥ instead of so 255 is correct for me

[@SirWrexes]

Looks like Explorer tries to strip the name of the folders you try to open of their leading and trailing whitespaces, as they should normally have none, and gets confused. So that would explain why 'C:/Users/FlyTech/Desktop/ /' shows the content of the desktop itself, as when clicking to go there it resolves it as 'C:/Users/FlyTech/Desktop//' and implicitly removes the redundant trailing slash (or backslah) whereas pointing to the inode directly with an absolute path skips the folder name resolution and actually takes you there. That would also explain why you can't reach the content of the folders without slapping the full path in the address bar. That also makes the deletion part of the video make sense. And the Open dialog should have a different behaviour as it is not directly part of the Explorer, and probably doesn't strip the node names for some stability/compatibility/whatever requirements apps could have for it, since it is a universal tool used by countless applications including non Windows ones, and so it would logically not share he same code for navigating through files and folders. At least that's my guess.

[@SirWrexes]

And of course WSL doesn't care about all this bullshittery HAHAHAHAHA. 🤣 Linux be like "Wanna name your folder that ? Alright, as long as it is characters that exist, you're the boss." It's hilarious how even in Windows, Linux performs better than NT.

[@damian9303]

People pretty much knew this since forever, search up “how to make a hidden folder on windows xp”

[@FlyTechVideos]

Have you watched the entire video though

[@theairispure4314]

3:58 Okay that's weird..

[@abhijeet_ghosh]

Because Linux can deal with weird folders … now I get why flytrch doesn’t use Linux (his content would be gone)

[@L0op]

I'd guess explorer treats it like the "." directory that points to itself, but only in some cases. So it displays Desktop\. which is just Desktop, but when you're trying to open something, it's not there, unless you actually created the file in Desktop\

[@yy6u]

and this is actually possibly handy for deleting folders explorer thinks they're part of the system such as startup, who knows maybe it also gives errors

[@75rxREDSTONE]

I can't believe that I guessed how did you make these folders

[@Lampe2020]

I think WSL works because Linux allows for any character except slash in directory or file paths. Including 0x20, the space character.

[@Golem642]

I am glad to announce that today is my birthday, and I'm very proud of this palindrome. The 22 02 2022 is such an amazing day !

[@youraveragebfdifan]

In 2 days it is my birthday!

[@FeatheredKiwi]

Hope you can reach 100k soon!

[@FlyTechVideos]

Thanks bro

[@FeatheredKiwi]

@@FlyTechVideos no problems!

[@moonyl5341]

how come at 6:13 it says New folder but at 6:35 it says New Folder

[@mfaizsyahmi]

Everyone who's been to uni knows this all too well. Stick your thumbdrive into the wrong PC and it gets infected with a virus that replaces every file with .EXEs. Thankfully they didn't delete the files outright (so as to not appear sus in the disk size pie chart) but moves them in an invisible folder with a blank name in the drive root.

[@purplenanite]

This would make an awesome CTF

[@gar7ield878]

hey flytech, could you do a video explaining con, sysWOW and \\?\ (UNC)?

[@yy6u]

shouldn't alt+0160 also work? what would happen if you give profile manager a spaces user or at least a spaces profile? o.o

[@_KDP]

lol, i like how no one would do that but still its funny to name it just Ｓｐａｃｅｓ

[@shin_kinr]

fact: you are able to EASILY delete the "space folder". you need to go into the folder, then delete the space folder in there, go out, then refresh.

[@rysiukalbor]

OMG THANK YOU

[@solarzone7247]

Alt-255 is the NBSP, that is, the non-breaking space.

[@SpykoYT]

What happens in windows defender tries to go through weird folders and files

[@MenacingPerson]

Holy shit, this is some Quantum Physics shit.

[@2power2power79]

After the or is it?, can you replace the music with Jake Chudnow - Moon Men?

[@Twingamerdudes]

Perfect encryption method.

[@muuur]

Me: interesting, space named folders Fly: let's name the folders with NBSP (extended ascii 255) Parkour XD But anyways, folders named with only NBSP would work as nornal folders? Because I have tested other things changing space with NBSP and the result is that NBSP works (normally) like a normal printable character

[@ant2902]

yea NBSP Works normally

[@demonessaine9945]

I wonder what would happen if you could manage to get some version of Windows on ext4

[@olifloof]

h m m m

[@i_lost_my_bagel]

You can install it on btrfs

[@FlyTechVideos]

Me too, my friend... It's not easily possible. Though should I ever find out how, I'll be sure to try it out.

[@i_lost_my_bagel]

@@FlyTechVideos it might be possible with quibble if somebody writes an ext4 driver

[@createview2799]

the real challange would be running windows on APFS

[@CrazyGamerDude17]

If I’m correct, this works by using a Unicode called a Hangul Filler, they are basically spaces but a lot of programs and operating systems treat them like an actual Unicode, because it is, and it looks like a space so people use it to bypass no spaces, people also use it in some games that allow for character names of any length, for example, on among us people used this to get a hidden name before the devs patched the name, it is still used in several places like this Correction: this uses a Unicode called a No-Break Space

[@detecta]

yea i used that name in among us was pretty funny tbh

[@ddsunused]

watch the whole video

[@hapatapa_2981]

I tried it on my host but not on an important folder and when i deleted it through explorer it did not delete the parent folder which is just a folder i created seconds ago

[@Ebonykiss5]

How do i remove the "..." folder from my desktop

[@moonyl5341]

is it possible to have a folder with no name somehow

[@advikdutta]

How do folders that are visible but do not exist work? Is it that their metadata exists or what?

[@NotThatEpic7492]

another way of deleting it is by recycling the folders, (be sure to create a new desktop folder as well) moving the recycling bin to the desktop from $Recycle.bin. (The system will create a new recycle bin dont panic) then try deleting it once (it will say error) but the folder with appear with a jumble of numbers and letters. finally you can delete it with ‘rd C:\Users\%username%\Desktop\JumbleOfRandomLettersAndNumbers’ and it will be successfully removed

[@NotThatEpic7492]

“only try this in a vm” uh oh i did this on a school pc :|

[@masterwastaken]

I tried to create this in my host but after reboot the system just die and kept restart

[@DogesArePros]

5:26 music/editing error

[@wal937]

I try naming " " using character map. It really do, but some .exe programs wont work cus the " " folder. Typing the paths still works. There's my hidden files in " "

[@WTPawel]

You really got me at 0:54

[@Barrelopds89]

You Earned a new subscriber

[@ignistrum]

7:01 This happens because, let's say when you use rmdir in cmd, It will say the directory is not empty right? only rmdir Folder /s /q will work. Same thing here, You see, rmdir uses the legacy RemoveDirectory call: BOOL WINAPI RemoveDirectory( ‌_‌‌‌I‌‌‌n‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌_‌ LPCTSTR lpPathName ); The newer delete function uses the SHFileOperation call, relying on SHLWAPI.DLL: #include #include #pragma comment(lib, "Shlwapi.lib") int main() { SHFILEOPSTRUCT fileOp; ZeroMemory(&fileOp, sizeof(SHFILEOPSTRUCT)); \ fileOp.wFunc = FO_DELETE; fileOp.fFlags = FOF_NOCONFIRMATION | FOF_SILENT; fileOp.pFrom = L"C:\\Users\\fly\Desktop\folder"; int result = SHFileOperation(&fileOp); // Check the result if (result == 0) { } else { } return 0; } Because you uses UNC paths to create the folder, It relies on the RemoveDirectory call instead of the SHFileOperation call, which the SHFileOperation call is only initialized using the delete button or the rmdir Folder /s /q command, Windows uses UNC paths as network paths, So you can only delete it using the rmdir "\\?\C:\Users\fly\Desktop\ \" command or using regedit. Hope this helps

[@tomysshadow]

This channel reminds me of the kind of fooling around I'd do on my PC as a kid. It can be an educational experience! I remember wanting to create an elusive hidden folder once - even though I had nothing to hide, I just liked cool ciphers and spy themed toys so it was along those lines. I of course knew about the real hidden folders feature, but they're not really hidden if you can just check a box in Folder Options to make them show up right? When I looked it up I quickly ran across the Alt + 255 trick, and under Properties > Customize there was even a fully transparent icon you could use to effectively hide the folder... so long as you didn't select it, or view the Desktop in Explorer or something. However this kind of broke on Vista because it'd put a little border around all your desktop icons. Most of the other solutions I found online simply did the equivalent of marking the folder as hidden in the Properties dialog, but there was one that was a bit more clever and actually delivered on its promise. That was an app called WinMend Folder Hidden, which seemed to create a true hidden folder (in actual reality it could've been a silly trick, but I've never looked into how it really worked.) Of course this is all security by obscurity. At the time the idea of just using an encrypted drive like TrueCrypt wasn't as cool to me - after all, having it listed in My Computer totally gives the game away! But if I were to actually try and hide something now, I know it's the only real solution. Not that I ever had anything to hide of course, I'm an open book :)

[@LP_Alex007]

Can i do it on my main without crashing it?

[@userz111]

I remember doing this on desktop shortcut in windows xp. So all shortcut looks blend with the wallpaper.

[@brickwall2900]

you're about to hit 100k subs

[@cuberdc9641]

I'm using Windows 10 32-bit. According to Google, WSL only support 64-bit Windows. So how to delete my "only space" folder? I create it and can't delete it :( .Please reply me, FlyTech.

[@SparkieUwU]

Hah

[@cuberdc9641]

Fun fact: After creating this folder, all my efforts to delete it was failed. Then, my computer is in "sleep mode" and I took a breakfast. When I return with my computer to study onilne, I see this folder in the recycle bin. And I can permanently delete this without any error. It's so fun 🤣🤣

[@blue_dragonized_dolphin]

I tried creating "abc", "abc ", " abc", and " abc ", they worked without any weird behaviors on XP, but deleting those throws me an error that the folder is not empty

[@I.____.....__...__]

That's not _space_ it's _non-breaking space_, and its code-point varies from code-page to code-page. It's only 255 in DOS code-pages, in Unicode and Windows code-pages, it's 160. (It's 154 in Cyrillic.) In non-DOS code-pages, 255 will render as something else, often as ÿ. - You can create files and folders with all kinds of non-space spaces like zwj zwnj half-space quarter-space hair-space thin-space, etc.

[@YourFBIAgent01]

seems like "The Shadow Realm v2 : The Hall Of Illusions"

[@TG_1023]

the alt+255 thing didnt work

[@ShaLun42]

Alt-251. Have you tried it? I haven't tried it in modern versions of windows, but in Win9x it was displayed as "v" and was inaccessible

[@ShaLun42]

while perfectly accessible in ms-dos mode

[@ShaLun42]

In ms-dos this character looked like √ (square root). I used Norton Commander to create folder √irus, and in windows it appeared as "virus" but you could not enter this folder or delete it. Dos programs feel fine

[@srhotty]

Forget homework folders Folders FTW

[@gallium-gonzollium]

Next video: *folder has a n t i m a t t e r inside of it*

[@FlyTechVideos]

Say no more: kzbin.info/www/bejne/oJybeqKVmMyMr7s

[@prinzpablo527]

I tried alt 255, but got a letter ÿ with two dots above it. Any clue?

[@prinzpablo527]

@Sully Price did, and I'd not make an indestructible folder (excluding wsl) to make empty name folders

[@aashd9245]

@@prinzpablo527 Enable Hex Num Pad or search online for copy paste NBSP

[@FlyTechVideos]

Try Alt+0160 instead, maybe that works better for you

[@prinzpablo527]

@@FlyTechVideos " " works, it shows up on cmd/shell but both can't get to the path. Gives out error, also comes out as ? when I pasted the path from explorer.

[@kos256]

This reminds me about the movie matrix, where mostly nothing is real.

[@percent2520]

8:10 didn't you say that already?

[@rizkyadiyanto7922]

What if you try these using third party file manager??

[@kotki.sa.slodkie]

What if you set one of them as the desktop folder?

[@talongulledge4586]

Imagine you put sys32 in one of those files, that means sys32 is a illusion, so your pc is too. Wait, does that mean you are an illusion too?

[@SOTP.]

I mean you could put the windows folder.

[@rysiukalbor]

well now i have an bizare ass folder that i can't delete, i shoud have been more carefull *but that seems as a cool idea for an malware*

[@weegeenumberone2]

Is it just kind of like a temporary ".."?

[@petarpepe2275]

At windows 10 newer they don't get a desktop so it's working and it works files they can open files.

[@taurasandaras4699]

u can use rmdir "\\.\the folder path" to delete it from cmd(u can do that not sure about back then) PS. 111K subscribers and 11 months ago

[@percent2520]

This is also shown in another video with the folders *"Docs"* and *"Docs "*

[@qexat]

What if you name your folder with backspace character?

[@itzkxhu]

yeah i used it for my desktop to look good like 2 months ago

[@curtainzcompilation198]

0:56 wtf the flies died?

[@LunyaTheGay]

Nice video like always

[@FlyTechVideos]

Thanks again!

[@OneAndOnlyZekePolaris]

I stepped it up and did this and "nothing" and "unknown" file names. On Windows 10.

[@user-pr6ed3ri2k]

wait a sec, space and ... are the same?????!???? (2:32)

[@tanphuc3159]

I'm using a laptop, so that's no way I can use the Numpad, turns out I can't create a no-name folder

[@enemyenergyd3386]

Loool, I knew that Alt+255 "feature"

[@0xc4ae1e5]

Good place to store homework haha

[@MaritimeOcean41]

I tested this on ReactOS, react is an OS of the old project free win 95, I donwload it and works!

[@fart1234.]

I MADE ONE WITH THE MD COMMAND IN THE VIDEO HOW DO I REMOVE IT???

[@SOTP.]

Delete the folder that contains the broken folder.

[@fart1234.]

@@SOTP. so my desktop?

[@GunnerSiIva]

9:10 shit, I wanted to do that on my friend’s computer

[@Ismael821]

I was scared of the invisible start menu of the windows 8?1 in scratch

[@zigaudrey]

Windows is off to S P A C E !

[@adrian14131]

I use this 8 years ago to hide directories ;)

[@Oofker]

BRO I DIDNT DID IT ON A VM AND IT HAD ALL MY FILES IN IT AND I TYPED "rd "\\?\C:\Users\oioiu\Desktop\ \" and i really deleted it without losing my data lol

[@furthersecrets]

Oh great trick!!!

[@spyro_dr]

this totorial for folders with only spaces also works in linux.

[@xanderplayz3446]

2:09 my closet

[@Kreskowy]

i didnt watch the entire video but i think the subfolders are the folders on the desktop (the amount is the same)

[@FlyTechVideos]

yep!

[@fridayfunkgaming291offical]

Names my folder "space" *IQ 10000*

[@tpertux]

IQ 40*

[@fridayfunkgaming291offical]

@@tpertux true

[@wowdash0432]

i doesnt work on windows 7 and i have no windows 11 and 10

[@TheReal_ProtoFox]

you are so close to 100k subs

[@FlyTechVideos]

I know!! :D

[@TheReal_ProtoFox]

@@FlyTechVideos happy

[@SernoxSergal]

I did the huge mistake of trying this on my machine without watching the entire vid and deleted the folder. PLS DO NOT DO THIS I LOST MY ENTIRE DESKTOP!!!

[@HackerSinhos]

you can delete it with iobit unlocker just unlock and delete.

[@Toprak135]

O n l y s p a c e s , h u h ?