Re: Major issues with sharing violation error messages all the time!

On Sat, 18 Mar 2006 09:56:49 -0500, Dan Seur <click@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Looking at your 3 recent posts, I wonder if your troubles are caused by
your having used the upgrade-in-place rather than the fresh-install path
to get from W98SE to W2k. If that's not the case, stop reading here. :-)

Well, the first time it was an upgrade as I didn't know which was
better. I tried to do an overlay install the second time believing
posts that said the drive would automatically be re-formatted somehow.
It was not! I ended up with a new administrator reference with a
bunch of letters and numbers! <g> I've since read a possible solution
- we can use our Win98SE boot disk to reformat the drive and then to
put our Win2K boot disks and _then_ install the OS. I believe I'll go
that route next time, if indeed it is possible to do this. I'm sure
that there are vestiges of old stuff, too, at work here because the
drive hasn't been formatted properly unlike all my other fresh Win98SE
OS installs where I did that each time. That's probably making my
life even more difficult in this regard than it should be <g>.

What seems to be a great labor saver actually, in a great many cases,
turns out to be a horrible mistake. The more or less uniform sentiment
in these newsgroups in re moving from older to newer OSes is bite the
bullet, do a fresh install, and reinstall all your apps. You'll have a

Yes. I agree. This was done out of ignorance at how much trickier
Win2K can be in a home installation. I'm getting used to having to
fiddle more (since Win98SE is so much more straightforward), but
that's par for the course. As Scotty has said "the more complicated
the plumbing, the easier it is to stop up the drain!" <vbg>

stable glitch-free system if you do, and an endless series of headaches
if you don't. The "automatic translation" processes needed to get
correct registry entries, drivers, dlls etc etc by using driver lists,
substitution tables, and the like is still an inexact art. Incomplete is
the word. Dangerous, too. mumblemumbleharumph

PS: It is also the case that the NT family, including W2k, is much more
robust, stable, and intolerant of 'slightly unreliable' hardware than
the older DOS-based W9x systems. An older machine, particularly one
designed for and delivered with some version of w9x, may very well not
meet the stringent demands of W2k. In that case W2k, if it runs at all,
may from time to time unexpectedly sense that there's been a hardware
failure and declare itself maimed or even dead.

Hmph! No comment.

(I'm not prejudiced when it comes to older OSs. Mine does everything
I need it to do and judging from my conversations with others during
last 6 years, it's much, much more than the average home user does!
<g> The only thing I'd do if it were feasible is to get more memory
and a bigger hdd. But since the earlier is no longer really possible
without a lot of fuss, bother and money, I've not done the latter.)

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So, all the possible whys and wherefores of this sharing violation is
all well and good and very nice to talk about, but I still have a
problem <g>.

I've gotten around one aspect of this whole sharing violation problem
in that although I can't move files often, I can copy them. So I do
and then delete original file. One problem solved.

However, I'm still left with the problem of the ID3 tags. Even moving
a file doesn't always free it up to do this. Perhaps things will be
better once I do a completely fresh install after formatting my C
drive, but right now I use my MP3 player daily and am processing my
audio files and I really must be able to edit the tags.

Any thoughts on how to fix this sharing violation for editing these
files? Surely there must be a solution. I no longer care that I have
to fiddle for this, I use my player daily and need to find a reliable
working solution.

TIA. :oD

StargateFan wrote:
I very often can't edit or move files/folders without getting a
sharing violation message!

I have a collection of MP3s, for example. I have a program that
allows me to change the ID3 tags very easily via a context menu tab
addition. This system worked with not one hitch in Win98SE for 6
years! I attempt to change tags now and this rarely works. I've
since installed another tag editor thinking it might be the app itself
giving me problems but no such thing! This tag editor has a message
column and 9 out of 10 times it shows an error message in that box
saying it couldn't change tag as file was in use!!! It was not in use
by _me_, but by Windows for Pete's sake!

I just bought an mp3 player so I'm moving MP3 files off of my back-up
CDs all the time after which, as always, I remove the read-only
attribute. So due to the slightly higher volume of files I'm working
with, the error messages are happening with much greater frequency
than before and it's becoming a very serious problem. When I first
copy the MP3, it might allow me to change filename and tag. As the
original info is often too long and my mp3 portable player is a
1"-square block and so the display is very small, I am constantly
trying to shorten names and tags! But Win2K is forever giving me
problems and doesn't allow me to do either.

I've looked and looked through the internet archives of this ng but
there isn't much info re this problem and none of the solutions
offered have helped! I changed windows to classic view, for example,
nothing. Dl Process Explorer and that was no help at all. Etc., etc.
If there was an app that showed file extensions and the accompanying
process keeping a hold of it along with the option to kill that
process, _that_ would be the only thing that would help. Or stopping
this Win2K behaviour to begin with! I'm the administrator of my home
computer, for crying out loud! I should be the one to decide, as I
did for 6 years, what I want to do with my files!! <g>

Can someone pls help? I'm new to maintaining my own Win2K at home so
I'm not very knowledgeable yet but just know I can't keep having these
problems! I was forced to upgrade to Win2K, however, because a couple
of new programs I need have a minimum requirement of Win2K. But I'm
getting so darned frustrated with all the glitches in this OS that I'm
ready to return to Win98SE for daily use and installing Win2K in a
small partition for just those other apps I need. But what a complete
drag if I have to go that route! But I have too many annoyances like
this creeping up with Win2K (despite sp 4!).

Hope someone knows a definitive and workable daily solution to this
sharing violation thing that keeps coming up and I thank anyone in
advance for it! :oD



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