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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: trying again - jbr 20 only halfway recognized?!Re: trying again - jbr 20 only halfway recognized?!
From: Jens Arnold <arnold-j_at_t-online.de>
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 08:35:57 +0100 Hello Brian On 23.03.2005, you wrote: > 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... "Launch windows in a separate process" is one of my standard settings which I always activate asap on a new Windows box. Maybe this is one of the reasons why I don't experience this effect that often. It almost completely stopped when I upgraded to SP2. However, *if* it happens, I still have to kill all explorer processes. There is almost always a hung process (e.g. if I close all visible explorer windows, I still have 2 (!) explorer.exe processes, and since I don't know which one is the hung process and which is my shell, I have to kill both. Regards, Jens _______________________________________________ http://cool.haxx.se/mailman/listinfo/rockbox Received on 2005-03-24 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |