Re: [Win4Lin-users] OT: uses for win4lin - saw: win4lin 3.0 upgradebrouhaha

[Dan Swartzendruber]

At 07:15 PM 4/8/01 -0700, David Peet wrote:
> > 1. The annoying error when emptying the trash.  Sheesh, guys, this
> >    bug has been there since 1.0!
>
>If this is with Win98, it is a bug in Win98 that when it tried to create
>a "missing" RECYCLED directory in the root of a drive where you do
>not have permission to create one it, it pops up an error message.
>This happens when you empty the recycle bin, it goes thru all the
>drives and tries to create the RECYCLED directory.  The workaround is
>simple, just create such a directory where-ever you have a drive rooted.
>The error message does not actually stem from any real problem because
>it is ok to not have a RECYCLED directory there.
>With Win4Lin 3.0, there will be such a directory in the root of
>the J drive, so you will not see this problem unless you create a new
>drive letter that points to a read-only directory.

Hmmm.  All of my drives had Recycled dirs except J.  I created one in 
/var/win4lin/dosroot and gave myself access rights to it, but that didn't 
help.  What am I missing?




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