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re: The case of the asynchronous copy and delete
How often, if at all, does Microsoft attempt to contact these people and determine if there was a resolution? If you do it, does it ever succeed? [We have no way of contacting the customer. We don't...
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re: The case of the asynchronous copy and delete
The old Indexing Service (NT4 through XP) had a similar bug. If you quickly created and deleted a directory the Indexing Service would retain a handle to it, leaving a zombie directory that you...
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>Every so often, the NT file system folks dream of changing the deletion >model to be more Unix-like, but then they wonder if that would end up >breaking more things than it fixes. Do you know...
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Well I know it about the interference being blamed on antivirus. We have had similar incidents for which we gave the same explanation by the same twists of reasoning, but when its our customers that...
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re: The case of the asynchronous copy and delete
Interference from AntiVirus and other "grabby" software is the reason why I am paranoid about closing a file I am soon going to re-open nowadays. We've seen cases where we close a temporary file we...
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re: The case of the asynchronous copy and delete
Anti-Virus software might be the number one offender in such a situation, but the Shell's video file analyzer is certainly a close second. More often than not, I'm not able to delete video files...
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re: The case of the asynchronous copy and delete
We commonly see this while doing builds. The linker creates a new .dll or .exe and a corresponding .pdb, and it takes a while for the anti-malware (and other IT-mandated surveillance software) to do...
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I've hit this a few times with various backup/sync tools - try building in a synced or backed up directory, you'll occasionally find you can't replace foo.exe because it's being synced at the time. I...
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re: The case of the asynchronous copy and delete
Previewers has been a bane of file/directory deletion, in XP. They behave better these days, though. And nobody has mentioned yet the infamous "disappearing source file" problem in the VB6 IDE (or...
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re: The case of the asynchronous copy and delete
"[We have no way of contacting the customer. We don't even know who the customer is! Only the customer liaison knows. -Raymond]" My psychic powers tell me that we should now ask the question that Rick...
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How do you rule your Anti Virus software out if company policy does not allow (for good reasons) you to uninstall or even disable it? I had similar experiences with multi threaded file copying where...
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If you run into this kind of thing, a trace with call stacks from either sysinternals' Process Monitor or xperf/wpa (capture call the filesystem operations with call stacks) can be very illuminating....
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> We have no way of contacting the customer. We don't even know who the customer is! Only the customer liaison knows From an external perspective, "We" is Microsoft, not the Shell team or the...
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Do you have access to knowledge-base software used by customer liaison? If you do and is really interested, I suppose you can do keyword search to see if any new entry is added.
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re: You can't rule out a total breakdown of normal functioning, because a...
The worst thing about heap corruption is that it usually manifests itself as normal operation. I would suggest that it's actually quite rare for heap corruption to ever manifest as a bug. In fact,...
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Not really related (only very tightly), but why oh why was the explorer/shell behaviour changed when pressing delete with a selection of files? In older Windows' (even pre XP I think) the very first...
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Older versions of the Vembu backup open file agent did this. I know because in an ironic twist it prevented Sophos Anti-Virus from updating itself! I don't see the problem with a recent version of the...
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@Georg Rottensteiner i noticed that nearly immediately, and it has been aggravating me ever since. i presume it was done so that Explorer can continue to remain responsive, while preparing a list of...
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re: Why don't the shortcuts I put in the CSIDL_COMMON_FAVORITES folder show...
Behold, just saw a question and thought of this discussion in the comments. This is a direct quote: "I cannot see the buttons at the bottom where I can open things. Lots of changes lately. Cannot...
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re: The case of the asynchronous copy and delete
1 - Modern anti-viruses all have exceptions implemented. Exception to files, exceptions to folders, exceptions to protocols, exceptions to whatever you dream of. If you have a predefined work area tell...
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