XY won’t let go

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JohnM
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XY won’t let go

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I’m not sure if this an XY or Windows thing, but…

When I plug in my new USB HDD (a WD 60Gb job) I get the usual autoplay dialog (which I cancel) and then I access it in XY (usually via an entry in the catalog) as drive G:, XY doesn’t seem to want to let go of the drive when it comes time to unplug it. :(

I access it in XY (copy files, whatever) and when I’m finished I click the “Safely Remove Hardware” icon in the tray and select drive G:. Windows says that an application is using the drive and I can not safely remove the device. In XY the drive does not appear in any tabs but Sysinternals’ Process Explorer 10.21 says that XY has a file handle pointing to ”G:”.

When I try to close the handle (again using Process Explorer), PE says that the handle is invalid and that it can’t be closed. Of course I can just rip the USB plug out, but that’s not the point.

After a little bit of mucking about, it appears that the dodgy handle appears after XY updates it’s catalog icons to reflect the fact the drive was plugged in.

Thoughts?
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JohnM

Update: ok I must be going nuts. It's behaving itself and not doing it now. All I have done is unplugged it a couple of times. Weird. :?
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XYplorer 28.30.0000 x64
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Post by surrender »

In my case I have to either close the tab in which i was acessing the removable drive or have to change the tab to different path or close XY. Otherwise i cannot remove the device safely.
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Re: XY won’t let go

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JohnM wrote:...Sysinternals’ Process Explorer 10.21 says that XY has a file handle pointing to ”G:”.
This is either from Previewing/RawViewing a file, or from Auto-Refresh ON (which sets a hook to the current path).

Hm, I'm currently not aware of any "Query Remove Hardware" Windows message, but there should be one... needs some research.

Before I find out, your workaround is to stop any preview, and/or change the path away from the drive to be removed, or turn off autorefresh.
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