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Hi,

don't know if it is already a 'known' bug:

If I open a *.pb file from an USB stick and close it again, I'm not able to remove the USB stick 'save'.
Message: 'The device is in use, close all ...'

If I close PB, than I can remove the stick.

It looks that the file stays 'open'.

Bernd

Hi,

depending on the way how I open a .pb file on a USB flash drive, I get different results here (Windows 7 x64, using PB 5.31 beta 1 x64):

• When I open a .pb file by double-clicking at it in the Windows Explorer,
  and then close the file but leave the IDE itself open, then I encounter the same problem as you described.
• However, when I first launch the IDE, and open a .pb file from inside the IDE via "File" > "Open",
  and then close the file but leave the IDE itself open, then there is no problem, and I can savely remove the USB flash drive.

Hm...

I open the file via double click inside totalcommander.
But after I close the file in the IDE I change the directory and drive inside totalcommander, so that is not the
problem.
I do always look on USB drives with totalcommander and when I change the drive, I can remove the stick 'save'.

So it has something todo with the IDE.

Not an urgent bug, but I have always to remember that I have to close the IDE in such a case.

Btw. I used PB 5.30 x86 on Win XP x86 and Win 7 x64 to reproduce this behaviour.

That actually happens on WinXP on any drive type - for example, can't delete a just-closed file unless PB is closed. It's not something I encounter often (I code with UltraEdit) so I have never bothered to investigate why it happens.

IdeasVacuum wrote:[...] can't delete a just-closed file unless PB is closed.

I just noticed the same behavior using PB 5.30. No problem with PB 5.23, though.

As addition:

it happens not only on an USB device, it happens also on network drives.

I closed all programs inside the IDE,
then I tried to delete the complete directory where the source files where located (after zipping the directory to a file)

Result:
All files (includind subdirectories) were deleted, but I was not able to delete the main directory.
I had to close the IDE, than it works.

Maybe it has something todo with 'generate temporary executable in source folder'.
I have this option active.

Now with PB 5.42 x86 on windows 7 x64

Bernd

infratec wrote:If I open a *.pb file from an USB stick and close it again, I'm not able to remove the USB stick 'save'

I think this is due to the USB stick's cache settings in Windows, rather than a PureBasic bug.