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+---Topic: 1st file locked started by nonoize


Posted by: nonoize on Oct. 16 2004,22:54

Hi all,

Whenever I open tag studio the 1st file I click on is locked and cannot be edited. "Unable to write tag"

Is this a bug or just OS problem.

Using current version of Tag studio and latest version of Win 2000
Posted by: Magnus Brading on Oct. 16 2004,23:40

This has been discussed earlier, when one other person had a similar problem on his computer. It was then concluded that it was due to some other shell extension program installed into his operating system, unrelated to Mp3/Tag Studio. A clean operating system install (and then of course a subsequent installation of Mp3/Tag Studio) solved the problem for him. It would of course be less painful to find and uninstall the offending shell extension program instead, but depending on what it is, it might be a bit tedious.
Posted by: nonoize on Oct. 17 2004,00:42



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It was then concluded that it was due to some other shell extension program installed into his operating system
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The only other shell extension prog for MP3 is Windows Media Player.

I have only just finished formatting the hard drive and installing Win2K - needed a larger drive.

Downloaded tag studio after M$ critical updates, service packs etc. and just tried with old version of Tag - problem does not manifest itself. Willing to try another reformat and reinstall (3 Hours) unless you have any other suggestions.

regards
Posted by: nonoize on Oct. 17 2004,01:03

OK,

Just had a look at running services before I undertake a reload.

It seems that the problem is within Win Explorer itself. Tried to copy an MP3 tag and Explorer crashed - Generated errors closing down etc.

Will keep you updated

Regards
Posted by: Magnus Brading on Oct. 17 2004,02:11

Yes, shell extension programs are so called "COM servers" located in DLLs loaded by Explorer itself, not showing up as separate processes/services in the operating system, so what I describe above would show just that behavior, yes. Thanks for your reports.
Posted by: Llamatron on Oct. 21 2004,19:50

Win2k doesn't have this, I don't think, but XP tries to create "thumbnail" images of picture files and videos. It also tries to read audio file tags. This is a behavior that's known to lock files, and if CPU loading is heavy, Explorer never unlocks the files again. (I've heard that if you have huge videos, like from backing up a DVD, Windows will effectively go out to lunch while it chugs through multiple gigs of data to make its thumbnail. That must be great fun.)

< X-Setup Pro > claims to be able to disable this feature, but I haven't spent much time with it yet. It may only disable caching them (disable creating hidden thumbs.db files).
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