Ekkie Tepsupornchai
05-20-2003, 06:38 PM
Any eXPerts in the know?
I've always built and maintained my own machines at home and in terms of OS's I've gone through DOS6.2, Win3.1, Win95, Win98, Win98SE, Win2K and now WinXP.
My machines have always been networked together and never have I faced the constant file-sharing violation errors that I have in WinXP. It's fairly typical of me to move my own data files around and to clean up old data files. Sometimes all it takes is for me to preview an image using standard built-in XP features to render a file and/or it's folder bullet-proof from deletions or renaming (until I soft-reboot the machine)... and this is while no program is using that file and no other machine is accessing it via the network.
Additionally, reading and writing data to my removable storage cards is a real pain b/c XP appears to use write-behind caching that I don't know how to turn off and there isn't any obvious way to force-flush that cache so I can safely remove my card. I've hard multiple instances where my card showed unreadable files b/c I had removed it prematurely from my card reader.
Can anyone shed any wisdom for me? I never face these issues on my other Windows boxes (one installed with Win2K and another w/ Win98SE) and it seems backwards that my newest box has the most problems with this.
thanks,
Ekkie
I've always built and maintained my own machines at home and in terms of OS's I've gone through DOS6.2, Win3.1, Win95, Win98, Win98SE, Win2K and now WinXP.
My machines have always been networked together and never have I faced the constant file-sharing violation errors that I have in WinXP. It's fairly typical of me to move my own data files around and to clean up old data files. Sometimes all it takes is for me to preview an image using standard built-in XP features to render a file and/or it's folder bullet-proof from deletions or renaming (until I soft-reboot the machine)... and this is while no program is using that file and no other machine is accessing it via the network.
Additionally, reading and writing data to my removable storage cards is a real pain b/c XP appears to use write-behind caching that I don't know how to turn off and there isn't any obvious way to force-flush that cache so I can safely remove my card. I've hard multiple instances where my card showed unreadable files b/c I had removed it prematurely from my card reader.
Can anyone shed any wisdom for me? I never face these issues on my other Windows boxes (one installed with Win2K and another w/ Win98SE) and it seems backwards that my newest box has the most problems with this.
thanks,
Ekkie