From: Jason W. <gi...@ma...> - 2001-11-20 06:07:51
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a wrote: > I figured out the problem. To put it simply, Allegro will only display files and folders on an NTFS partition that are marked as > "allow Indexing Service to index this file". In a default Win2k setup this is no problem, as the entire partition is set to be > indexed, but I'm one of those picky users who wants to squeeze every last drop of space I can from Windoze. I'm sure that fixing > this would require using an unconventional means of reading directory information, but there you have it. > > --Kryten Hmm I haven't played around with that but I simply just chose to not have the Indexing Service run at all. I'm using XP and I disabled it in the services panel. I haven't changed any NTFS attributes or anything relating the indexing service, so I don't know what my defaults are, but the searching dog (yes Windows XP has dog sniff our your files during a search), tells me that I have the option to index my files. I was thinking about that. I like slocate in Linux... Anyways I digress. As I've said before I installed XP and DJGPP, MSVC, and the Allegro CVS on an NTFS partition and I didn't run into a single problem yet. But as a workaround, if you can, you could disable the indexing service entirely then enable that attribute if that's what does it. Disabling it entirely is probably better than enabling it but just not having it index anything :\. Gillius >From <all...@ca...> Mon Nov 19 22:58:28 2001 Received: from femail21.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.95.146] by canvaslink.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-6.00) id A4E3788C0122; Mon, 19 Nov 2001 22:58:27 -0500 Received: from pc1 ([24.4.43.19]) by femail21.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.20 201-229-121-120-20010223) with SMTP id <20011120035449.BBTG1594.femail21.sdc1.sfba.home.com@pc1> for <al...@ca...>; Mon, 19 Nov 2001 19:54:49 -0800 Message-ID: <003a01c17177$1a5af4e0$af9bfea9@pc1> From: "a" <kr...@ho...> To: <al...@ca...> References: <001001c1715d$4f9fbb50$af9bfea9@pc1> <3BF...@ma...> Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 21:54:46 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Subject: Re: [AL] Win2k Misc. Issues (WIP 3.9.40) Precedence: bulk Sender: all...@ca... Reply-To: al...@ca... X-UIDL: 308772644 Status: O Content-Length: 404 Lines: 6 As a matter of fact, I did remove Indexing Service from add/remove programs, but, as can be expected, it's "features" are still there. I did go ahead and switch it's service from Manual to Disabled in Services, but it seems that it still must be allowed to index the drive (and, therefore, must be doing some level of space-wasting) for Allegro to work. Well, at least it's disabled now. ;-) --Kryten |