On 03-Sep-06 Tim Green wrote:
On 9/3/06, Ted Harding Ted.Harding@nessie.mcc.ac.uk wrote:
Q: I have an AVI file that I cannot delete. Help! Waleed El Tair, via e-mail
Presumably a movie player still had the file open. In the Unix world the file will appear deleted, but still be on the disk until the application quit, closed the file handle, and reduced the reference count to zero.
Tim.
I think I may have tracked down what the real problem is in such cases. It seems that Win Explorer puts up thumbnail "previews" of .avi (and other media) files, which cannot be deleted unless the preview action is turned off! Google on
regsvr32 avi
See e.g.:
http://www.virtualdub.org/blog/pivot/entry.php?id=89#body
So it looks as though it's basically what you say, except that it's not being really played, only accessed for the purpose of making icons in Explorer.
Oh dear! Ted.
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