I have seen this problem before (it does appear to be an XP thing) but can't think how I got around it (apart from re-booting in-between CD changes).
Does it happen on all XP machines, or just that one? -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Phil Middlemiss Sent: Tuesday, 19 December 2006 2:23 p.m. To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List Subject: Re: [DUG] FindFirst on a CD drive Thank you for that immensely helpful comment - have you been hitting the eggnog early? :-) As it happens (at the risk of taking your suggestion seriously), we do use DVDs and the problem still happens. Jeremy Coulter wrote: > Use DVD's Phil :-) > > Jeremy > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Phil Middlemiss > Sent: 19 December 2006 13:24 > To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List > Subject: [DUG] FindFirst on a CD drive > > Hi guys, > > we have a program that copies files from a number of CDs to the hard drive > and uses FindFirst recursively to see which files are available on the CD. > > Once it's copied all the files from one CD it asks for the next CD and > searches that disc for any files it can copy. This is where it seems to have > a problem. On my machine (W2k) everything works fine, on another machine in > the office (XP) it doesn't seem to find any files after the disc has been > swapped for the next one. > > Could this be Windows caching the CD contents? I tried refreshing Explorer > to show the actual contents of the second CD (which it did) but the app > still couldn't seem to find any files. > > Any ideas what is going on? > > Cheers, > Phil. > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.409 / Virus Database: 268.15.24/592 - Release Date: 18/12/2006 > > > > _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list [email protected] http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi
