Error moving files or folders...blah blah blah
 

The f8king computer won't let me drag and drop files from one folder to another. It claims, the lying sack of shit, that the files are in use by another program. bullshit. no other programs are running, asswipe.

:mad2:

Some programs are stupid and don't know they've quit. I've got a couple of audio programs that are especially bad about that. Reboot and it should be fine.

OK I'm trusting you 'cause I think you are a genius. If I'm not back in a few days send someone around to check on me...

"This folder cannot be deleted because it contains items which do not exist."

Actual error message from a mac network.

I've often found that while a program might not appear in the applications tab of the task manager, it can show up in processes. I had Windows complain about a Word document that couldn't be moved due to it being in use by another program, and sure enough, WINWORD.EXE was a running process, even though Word was not open.

Outlook can sometimes keep Word open (it uses Word as its editor).

It's possible to create a file. inside a folder... inside another folder... etc... so that the complete path, from c: on, of the file is too long for Windows to handle. (At this point you're asking.. well why did it let me create the file?? Good question.) It'll give errors saying the file is in use or read-only when you try to use it. You can rename some of the folders in the tree to make it shorter and it would work. I don't know if something like that's happening here.

Hmm, I will try that Steve. It is somewhat buried, but it lets me move some of them and then stops letting me move them. If I reboot I can move the ones it wouldn't let me but after a few files the problem eturns.

This all started happening after I loaded some shitty ass software called regcure in an attempt to fix a problem that I didn't fully understand and I now see it is sort of like learning about sex and birth control from nine year old boys.

For some reason, I can't restore a point before that day. I am now going to be more religious about setting restore points.

I'm wondering if I have to reinstall windows if the registry clearing software actually remove some important stuff. I've since removed the software.

May be a legitimate problem, but you might want to check for viruses too.

Yeah, Iam running Prevx, AVG, Spybot/teatimer and Zone alarm. That probably explains why things are slow, but none of them show a virus or anything, BUT task manager shows about a 2-4% CPU usage when no program is running, and at times it spikes up to 80% if I am running firefox and a couple of chubby photoshop files.

I have a guru who volunteered to take on the case...

Firefox can be bad about that, as well. Don't have to reboot, though --- just find firefox.exe in the Processes list of Windows Task Manager and end that particular process.

Especially ZA. Completely disappointed by their recent efforts, which are seriously bloated. With my recent switch back to Windows from Ubuntu Linux, I've also switched to Comodo firewall.

Since this is a thread on moving files can someone help me? I'm am 99.9% technologically impaired. My old desktop was home to all my photos and itunes stuff. At the advice of a few intelligent people I came to realize that was bad. Photos are now all backed up on external HD and disk. That part is cool.

Can someone please explain in 3rd grade terminology how to get my itunes to run off of my external HD?

First step is to change the name of the external HD to i: drive.

Get your 3rd grader to do it?

I'm sure by the time Lil Lookout hits third grade he'll be able to do it in his sleeep. Until then I'm stuck with the same songs on my ipod unless I figure out how to do it myself.

Open itunes preferences. In the advanced tab, look for the iTunes Music folder location. Set that to where you want to store your music.

Is this what you mean?

Are you trying to set up your external drive as your primary library location? Go to the Edit menu, select Preferences and in the Preferences dialog box select the Advanced tab. The top of that tab has the place where you can set the location of your iTunes library.

I can do this.

Would prefer to show than tell.

Your plane ticket is in the mail. Either that, or I'll give you a call later.

Thanks all for your instructions. TBH I haven't had a chance to work on it yet.

Big V is the man.

I have not personally verified the veracity of that claim but I will certainly say BigV is one hell of a person. Unless of course you are identifying him as one of the anonymous posters of cockidge.