Re: Search and Destroy.

"Wiley Coyote - N2K" <mits_mvp@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

|>Windows XP Pro, all the latest updates/sp etc. I do a Windows Search for
|>let's say README.*. Windows Seach finds all the files, I then try to "MASS
|>DELETE" and Windows responds with "Unable to read from source disk".
|>
|>I can delete them one at a time (or even a few at a time).
|>
|>Sometimes, Windows responds with "Nothing to do", then the file(s) are
|>deleted.
|>
|>These files are located (for example) in Docs & Setting, Desktop, Temp etc.
|>
|>I installed FileLocatorPro and do the same thing and all is well. I would
|>imagine that this is a Windows Search Thingy???
|>
|>This is not a life and death issue, just more curosity than anything else.
|>
|>Anyone know why?

Your trying to delete from the temp directory - if you can' the file
is in use or has been deleted since the search was perform'd, and it
stops the whole process

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