DTVault Encrypted USB Drive

I have a Kingston USB drive that requires password login to open access to storage. It has displayed and worked fine in Dopus for years. Now it shows the application as waiting to be written to disk. I cannot run the application anymore, but if I right click the drive and tell it to run program from media, it works. Also, in window file explorer it looks and works normally.

Any ideas?

In Dopus:

In File Explorer:

The drive is telling the operating system it is a DVD-RW drive (with an unsaved change to that exe waiting to be burned to the disc), which seems very strange in itself if it’s a USB stick.

Thanks for the input. The USB stick is treated as a DVD drive (it is an encrypted USB stick that requires running the EXE to enter password to enable access to the file system for read/write). Why Dopus thinks the EXE is waiting to be written is the odd part. File Explorer recognizes it as usual, with no files "waiting to be written". Dopus has recognized it correctly for years, so possibly a bug introduced from the latest update.

The files "waiting to be written" are a function of Windows, not Opus. Maybe File Explorer dropped support for modifying CDRW now it's less popular, I don't know. (Edit: Yeah, Windows 10 and 11 disable it by default, see https://www.reddit.com/r/computerhelp/comments/193gfq4/dvdrw_drive_not_burning_through_file_explorer/ )

Files waiting to be written to CDRW media will be stored here by default, at least on Windows 10:

%LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\Burn\Burn

If there's nothing there, you can find the path by looking up the value in the registry:

Key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders
Value: CD Burning

Thanks again for your quick replies. So if Windows 11 disables it, why would Dopus show it? Or does Dopus not care about the registry settings. And more curiously why would that file all of a sudden appear as "waiting to be written?"

In any case, with your help I found the path of the files waiting to be burned, and removed them from that folder, and now all is good. Thanks for helping me resolve this issue even though it wasn't an issue with Dopus.

Ok to close this ticket. Thanks again.

I'm not sure what Windows disables exactly. It may just hide it from File Explorer while keeping the underlying mechanism there if other software uses it. Who can even keep up with Microsoft's whims and half-removed / half-working features anymore.