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Offering this for others who may encounter this, as it had me wondering for a couple of mins as to what was the issue...
I had selected a .zip file in list and was attempting to rename it but kept getting the "sharing violation - file in use" error...I had the Preview tab active and I'd custom defined .zip as belonging to Office&Web files for preview (don't recall exactly why now)...anyway, what I'd not noticed was a pop-up for "File Download" that was the culprit! It didn't show as a running appl in Task Mgr and wasn't on my taskbar...but when I did a Alt+Tab, it then showed and I was able to release the lock.
When file is "in use", you may need to look via Alt+Tab
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When file is "in use", you may need to look via Alt+Tab
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(XP on laptop with touchpad and thus NO mouse!) Using latest beta vers when possible.
(XP on laptop with touchpad and thus NO mouse!) Using latest beta vers when possible.
Re: When file is "in use", you may need to look via Alt+Tab
A different case of tool tips creating problems is browsing a folder with video files: by default, XYplorer parses movie files the mouse cursor is on to display specific video information including length, which can take a lot of time with large files.
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Re: When file is "in use", you may need to look via Alt+Tab
This problem has been solved quite a while ago by adding the Initial delay setting. Not?nas8e9 wrote:A different case of tool tips creating problems is browsing a folder with video files: by default, XYplorer parses movie files the mouse cursor is on to display specific video information including length, which can take a lot of time with large files.
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Re: When file is "in use", you may need to look via Alt+Tab
It isn't a problem for me anymore, but I'm not sure (now that you ask...) how that came about. Under Windows XP, I recall disabling custom file info tips. My current XYplorer config still has these disabled (including the length info, which seemed to cause the delay) but under Windows 7 I do get the length info in XYplorer's default tool tip. I can only assume Windows 7 provides this information by default and a lot faster than XYplorer and/or Windows XP. Perhaps Windows 7 benefits from the Windows Search index, so that the files are don't have to be parsed any more.admin wrote:This problem has been solved quite a while ago by adding the Initial delay setting. Not?nas8e9 wrote:A different case of tool tips creating problems is browsing a folder with video files: by default, XYplorer parses movie files the mouse cursor is on to display specific video information including length, which can take a lot of time with large files.