Bill, Agree, but not the point. Storage in a temporary file or folder is just that, temporary. That said, obviously something is doing what you said, but my Malwarebytes and anti-virus and CCleaner are all set to leave that temporary subdirectory and file alone.
I can manually fix the problem by recreating the WSJT-X sub-folder and then restarting WSJT-X or changing something in WSJT-X. One of the errors occurred on WSJT-X startup. I can live with it, because the errors happen intermittently and not frequently. This started as just a question. Why, when WSJT-X finds the error, can't it re-establish the folder and file. If the developers view this as an extremely low priority, that's fine. You are busy and frankly if I were one of you, it wouldn't be high on my radar either. So it's just a question. __________ Dan - K4SHQ CFI/II -----Original Message----- From: Bill Somerville [mailto:g4...@classdesign.com] Sent: Monday, December 16, 2019 6:55 PM To: wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [wsjt-devel] WSJT-X 2.1.2 Status File Error On 17/12/2019 00:41, Dan Malcolm wrote: > Thanks Jim. > > Yes I do have Malwarebytes and an anti-virus running but both have the temp > WSJT-X folder and file exempted. It probably is something that's running but > if WSJT-X can't find that directory inside a temp directory, it should just > re-create it. Temp folders and files are by their nature volatile and > temporary. > > __________ > Dan - K4SHQ > CFI/II Dan, this sort of error can happen on Windows when one application holds a file or directory open while another deletes a parent directory. Windows appears to complete the deletion of the directory but the directory is invisibly preserved until the first application closes the file or directory it has open. There is no problem with this until a new application instance tries to recreate the deleted directory which then fails. WSJT-X deletes it's temporary directory and contents upon exit and creates it on entry. I guess some other application is holding that directory or a directory or file under it open and interfering with WSJT-X's best efforts to use it's own temporary files. Temporary files are not volatile by nature, they are simply files that are created and used by an application until it has finished with them. They should not be opened by other applications which have no business meddling with internal WSJT-X data. 73 Bill G4WJS. _______________________________________________ wsjt-devel mailing list wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel _______________________________________________ wsjt-devel mailing list wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel
