👉 Okay, let’s tackle that wonderfully weird filename – 6201705.conf! Strap yourselves into your delightfully nerdy seat because we're about to wade through some frankly rather… technical weirdness.
Essentially, '6201705.conf’ isn't a thing you actually see . It's the name of an InMemory Configuration File. (Cue dramatic intake of breath and maybe a slow-motion head scratch. Seriously!.) Let's unpack that. Imagine you're building a ridiculously complicated, bespoke, almost certainly overengineered, gingerbread house. You wouldn’t just slap on icing randomly, right? There needs to be a blueprint – the instructions for exactly where each gummy drop and sprinkle goes! That blueprint is the configuration. 6201705, in that context, is the absolutely specific, probably handwritten (on some very old, possibly blessed, floppy disk) note detailing exactly what bits of memory are being used and how they relate to your gingerbread fortress . Now, here’s the kicker: a "1.34.5, 09.23.48” file is essentially an ‘on-the-fly, last minute, I just realised something needs tweaking, now! ' sort of note that gets shoved into your computer's memory and then almost instantly disappears. That means it’s a record of the current state that