[DUG] FindFirst on a CD drive

[Dave O'Brien]

I have seen this problem before (it does appear to be an XP thing) but
can't think how I got around it (apart from re-booting in-between CD
changes).

Does it happen on all XP machines, or just that one?
-----Original Message-----
From: delphi-bounces at ns3.123.co.nz [mailto:delphi-bounces at ns3.123.co.nz]
On Behalf Of Phil Middlemiss
Sent: Tuesday, 19 December 2006 2:23 p.m.
To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
Subject: Re: [DUG] FindFirst on a CD drive

Thank you for that immensely helpful comment - have you been hitting the

eggnog early? :-)

As it happens (at the risk of taking your suggestion seriously), we do 
use DVDs and the problem still happens.

Jeremy Coulter wrote:
> Use DVD's Phil :-)
>
> Jeremy 
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: delphi-bounces at ns3.123.co.nz
[mailto:delphi-bounces at ns3.123.co.nz] On
> Behalf Of Phil Middlemiss
> Sent: 19 December 2006 13:24
> To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
> Subject: [DUG] FindFirst on a CD drive
>
> Hi guys,
>
> we have a program that copies files from a number of CDs to the hard
drive
> and uses FindFirst recursively to see which files are available on the
CD.
>
> Once it's copied all the files from one CD it asks for the next CD and
> searches that disc for any files it can copy. This is where it seems
to have
> a problem. On my machine (W2k) everything works fine, on another
machine in
> the office (XP) it doesn't seem to find any files after the disc has
been
> swapped for the next one.
>
> Could this be Windows caching the CD contents? I tried refreshing
Explorer
> to show the actual contents of the second CD (which it did) but the
app
> still couldn't seem to find any files.
>
> Any ideas what is going on?
>
> Cheers,
> Phil.
>
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