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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: trying again - jbr 20 only halfway recognized?!Re: trying again - jbr 20 only halfway recognized?!
From: Brian Wolven <brian.wolven_at_verizon.net>
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 10:53:18 -0500 Jens Arnold wrote: > Hello Mark > >>This sometimes happens to me, both with my Archos and a >>ThumbDrive - Even if you find the drive and open it, you are >>limited to 8.3 filenames! > >>I have always found a reboot, whilst leaving the drive >>connected fixes the problem. In addition, I only generally see >>this occur if I have been using "Standby". If I shutdown and >>power off the PC when not in use, I don't think this fault >>occurs... > > This is an explorer problem. On XP, this happens much less often > if you upgrade to SP2 (at least it did for me). > > Anyway, if you experience these effects, you don't need to reboot. > Simply open the task manager and kill *all* 'explorer.exe' > processes. The windows explorer is also in charge of providing > the desktop, so doing this will make the taskbar vanish. You need > to restart the first explorer via the task manager's menu > (file->new task). Then start another explorer. The drive letter > should now be there, including lfn support. I've found a 3rd party hotkey application to be useful here - define one key combo to start (or restart) an explorer window. It'll save you a few milliseconds every time you have to do this. =) You could probably set up a batch file that'd kill existing explorer processes as well, and bind that to another hotkey. I only run explorer as a file manager (I'm using an alternate shell), so I haven't needed that option. One think that might be worth playing with to see if it helps reduce this problem is to go to Tools->Folder options in an explorer window, then select the "view" tab, and check the box for "Launch folder windows in a separate process". I wonder if that might eliminate the need to kill the shell; you'd still have to close any open explorer file manager windows though. Just a thought... _______________________________________________ http://cool.haxx.se/mailman/listinfo/rockbox Received on 2005-03-23 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |