I have been a more or less happy Opus user for the past 3-4 years, but now I'm getting more and more annoyed by minor issues, and before I completely stop using DOpus I'll try to see if I can find a solution
One of the most annoying things is:
When I try to delete several directories Dopus starts complaining that the folder is not empty, and even if I accept to delete all it keeps popping up the 'Directory not empty error', and after a few F5 it turns out that the directory is already deleted. For some reason it looks like DOpus is using several threads and can't keep track.
I know it sounds funny, but it happens several times a week.
Are you deleting to the recycle bin or without it?
Does the same thing happen with Explorer?
When you do the deletion, have you recently viewed the contents of the folder by entering it or generating a thumbnail for the folder? If so which mode did you view it in?
Which kinds of files are in the folder? Any video files?
Have any programs been run from the folder, or on its contents, just before deletion?
Is it a network folder? If so which OS is at the other end?
Have you tried temporarily disabling any real-time anti-virus software in case it is involved?
[quote="leo"]Are you deleting to the recycle bin or without it?
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Witout recycle bin
No, explorer works as expected
No I have not created any thumbnail - It's a directory that I checkout from SVN, then delete all .svn folders, then copy the rest to a new location. Then before a new checkout I try to delete all files and folders and then the problem occure
Text/php files and some images
Yes and no, I also have the problem even it's several hours/days since I did the last SVN checkout.
No it's on my C drive on a laptop running Windows Vista Ultimate 64 bit
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Have you tried temporarily disabling any real-time anti-virus software in case it is involved?[/quote]
Please don't try to blame others if you do, the it's same as telling me to stop using DOpus - I do know that you are trying to help, but why is it allways the virus program?
I have tried to disable it, and I have changed to a different vendor, and the problem is still the same.
If you try to 'blame' others, just let me know and I'll stop using DOpus, as my virus protection is more important.
That sounds very similar to what you are seeing. The post says they found that TSVNCache.exe was holding locks on folders which had files from SVN in them which prevented the folders from being deleted.
There they say that changing a setting in Tortoise SVN seemed to solve the problem. Can you give that a try and see if it works?
I use Tortoise SVN myself and regularly have to kill TSVNCache.exe to make it release locks on folders. I've seen lots of threads on similar issues with it when trying to investigate the problems I had. It's still a great program and I still use it. By the way, you can safely kill the TSVNCache.exe process via Task Manager to release the locks and it will be restarted automatically the next time it's needed.
It might not be TSVNCache.exe but from my own experience using it, and the posts I've read about it, plus the fact it's an SVN folder we're talking about, that would be the first thing I would investigate.
Please don't try to blame others if you do, the it's same as telling me to stop using DOpus - I do know that you are trying to help, but why is it allways the virus program?
I have tried to disable it, and I have changed to a different vendor, and the problem is still the same.
If you try to 'blame' others, just let me know and I'll stop using DOpus, as my virus protection is more important.[/quote]
Sheesh, calm down. I wasn't blaming anything. I was simply suggesting things which may be involved and be worth investigating further to see where the real problem is.
I said temporarily. I wasn't telling you to turn it off and ditch it forever. I use a virus checker myself and think they are a good idea.
Virus checkers insert themselves between programs and the OS and have caused strange problems in the past. If there are no other ideas then it's always worth temporarily disabling them to see if that helps. If it doesn't then they can be ruled out. If it does then the issue can be investigated further.
Even if another program was involved it wouldn't automatically mean the other program was at fault, but there must be some combination of programs or behaviour which triggers the problem otherwise we would all see it all the time. Knowing what those things are is the first step to being able to reproduce and understand the problem.
If you refuse to accept that another program could even potentially be involved in the issue then let me know and I'll stop trying to help you...
(BTW there is no reason to stop using Opus just because of something I say. I'm just an admin at a user-to-user forum. I'm not part of GPSoftware and this is not the official support channel.)