Re: Argosy HD-363N

Does the Read-only attribute correspond to the folders you cannot see
withTOCMaker?

Robin Mitchell wrote:

>On Thursday, February 3, 2005, 6:07:24 PM, Tim Hill wrote:
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>>Well, the plot thickens indeed...
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>>So DIR shows all of them, which is a good sign. I cannot for the life of
>>me think what could make TOCMaker miss folders like that -- both
>>TOCMaker and DIR are basically using the same APIs. Are there any
>>curious attributes on the folders themselves -- Windows does odd things
>>with the Read Only attribute on a folder (not a file)?
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>The Read Only attribute shows oddly for the folders, but it often does
>-- I'm running WinXP, and it shows as a green box instead of a
>checkmark or an empty box.  But then if I go look at the files in the
>folder, none of them are read-only.  This is pretty normal behavior
>for WinXP; folders on my desktop machine do the same thing.
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>>I just glanced at the TOCMaker source code: nothing jumped out, buffer
>>sizes looked ok. One interesting note is that TOCMaker skips "System"
>>folders, that is, those that have the System attribute set. I doubt it's
>>an issue, but this might be worth a quick check.
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>No, none of them are System folders.
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>I'm baffled -- I'll keep experimenting, and please let me know if you
>have any more ideas, but at the moment it looks like I've bought
>myself a $108 doorstop.  I'd advise people to stay away from this
>thing unless someone can figure out how to make it work.
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>Foo.
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