So late last night I am working on my project - a project I have been working on (on this machine) for month and months, and suddenly my software won’t link. Vista is telling me I don’t have the permissions needed for Visual Studio to replace the exe.
WTF? Where did that come from? I could understand if it had *started *that way - or if I had changed something and asked it to *become *that now.
Turns out the top level folder is marked as read-only. But it isn’t as easy as right-clicking on properties and changing the read-only flag (that appears to work, but once you go back into visual studio you find they were just kidding.) You have to right-click the folder, go into the securities and change access permissions. Again, WTF? How did that get set?
I have AVG hunting through see if I have a virus, just in case. Vista, you suck.
I’m in the UK at the Home office (as opposed to my *home *office), and so I would lose the work I’ve done since being here. I do not have access to all the tools I would at the office I usually work in.
In that office, I am a backing-up fiend. It would piss me off to lose the 5 days of work I have, but it would not be crippling. It actually might even be a good thing, because this week’s work wasn’t my best…
Actually, sometimes I post things like this with a side goal that it will help someone else. I am glad it did. I still have to ask though - why, after working on this machine for months, did this suddenly happen? (Or how?)
I always saw it as read only and got the same stupid reset bug. I didn’t think of security permissions because I never changed any security settings, I mean, I was the sole user of the machine, why would that be relevant? I probably would have figured it out eventually if that machine was actually integral to have working completely properly.
I’ve been able to (intermittently) replicate the bug by opening a file and then hard resetting system while it’s been in use. AFAIK, Vista prevents users from moving in-use files by marking them as read-only in their permissions while open*, so perhaps this causes a related bug on startup since the file was read only immediately before the unexpected shutdown? It’s not perfect though, so there may be another factor at play I’m missing.
Was there any time in the last week where something like this happened? (Unexpected server reset, power outage, system lockup etc)
I actually know this because in a recent GQ thread someone pointed out that Windows Media Player often fails to close properly which, if you rarely turn off your system, can cause seemingly out of use video/audio files to seem unmovable.
Exactly. I don’t even hook it up to a network when I use it (just the Internet.) There was no reason I could think of (or can think of) for the security permissions to suddenly change.
I did have a lock up yesterday and did a hard reboot. That *may *have been it, but it was early in the afternoon and I had recompiled my software many times between when that happened and when it suddenly stopped being able to link. Of course, the problem kicked in late (for me) in the day (past 11 PM). By that time I was having trouble concentrating and thinking… Sorted it out eventually, but it still pissed me off.
OK, I finally found my problem. Although my fix from yesterday *did *allow me to set my folders from read-only to read-write, somehow the damn thing was still be set to read-only over and over! All my fix did was allow me to change it back.
Turns out it was a 3rd party add-in to Visual Studio. Once removed, my problems went away… (Though I have doubts too many others will run into this, the tool is from XenoCode and is called PostBuild.)
Okay, since you’ve figured that out, can you please tell me why Vista won’t see the DVD I have in my drive? It was working the day before yesterday, when there was yet another update.
I have been steadily cursing at it all morning and that hasn’t seemed to help.
I’m making the transition from XP to Vista. I created a file—an ongoing thing I would be working on for months. I forgot about it for a few weeks and when I went back to find it, daddy it’s just gone.
I can’t figure out how or why. I can almost believe I deleted it. My machine’s about a month old and I haven’t deleted much of anything. I have a Maxtor external hard drive that does its own back up thing in addition to whatever Vista’s doing. If I’d deleted the file from C, it should still exist in E unless I went to both and deleted it, which I know I didn’t do.
Luckily the file wasn’t anything critical. I’m treating Vista like a layover…I’m just stuck in this airport till my flight to Windows 7 arrives.
Actually, sometimes I post things like this with a side goal that it will help someone else. I am glad it did. I still have to ask though - why, after working on this machine for months, did this suddenly happen? (Or how?)