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DC++ 0.7x hangs (Windows XP Prog)

Asked by alf p. steinbach

Previous versions of DC++ (presumably the hashing) interacts badly with my cheap USB disk, reporting that there are disk errors everywhere, and sure enough these errors then also appear in other programs, in worst the case the disk becomes inaccessible (Windows then thinks it needs formatting and suggests that), so I then have to exit DC++ and turn the USB disk off and on again, and then no problem.

Without running DC++ there's no problem with the disk, even with disk-intensive work (it's a Maxtor drive if that helps).

With the latest version of DC++, 0.706, DC++ reports a disk error or two and then *hangs*. It seems the disk error reporting and hang are connected because (1) happens at the same time, and (2) Task Manager shows two application icons with DC++ name, both "not responding", one the ordinary DC++ icon and the other the Windows default app icon, and "go to process" for the default app icon goes to the Explorer process, which I take to mean that it's the balloon help notification -- or some other Explorer hook thing.

Since I didn't really like the new GUI I have temporarily solved the hang problem by re-installing old version. :-)

Would be nice if both the disk problem and hang could be solved, though.

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eMTee (realprogger) said : 		#1

There is a hardware error in your drive. And surely this will happen with other versions / programs soon. DC++ (and all other software) is designed to work well only with error free hardware so nothing much we can do for you. You'd better to start backup the drive and buy a new one.

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alf p. steinbach (alfps) said : 		#2

Uhm, thanks for that advice, but the disk problem is only with DC++ (no DC++ => all works nicely), and the hang problem only with version 0.706. Additional info: I saw elsewhere here reported mysterious problem (crash) with Norwegian locale, and although I'm using English language settings this is a Norwegian machine. Might be relevant or not.

I'd follow the advice anyway (disks are cheap) if it weren't for a very empty purse...

So hoping for the best regarding the disk, while using older version of DC++, and hoping for some newer version of DC++ that includes the fixes & improvements of 0.7x but sans hang. :-)

Cheers,

- Alf (fairly sure the hang is connected to use of balloon help notification)

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eMTee (realprogger) said : 		#3

You should know that managing file operations as well as the baloon tip you are talking about is handled and displayed by Windows itself. If a file system or a storage hardware has errors it is the operating system (through the storage driver) which tries to access and behaves like you described. It will happen to other programs as well if they would need to access the same area of the disk.
I changed the status here to Solved, and leave your bugreport entry open to others (but I am sure they will conclude the same :)