[DUG] FindFirst on a CD drive

[Phil Middlemiss]

The search starts from scratch each time with everything being freed 
after each search.

Gajo Csaba wrote:
> Do you start your search from scratch or you use the already existing 
> structure? Did you free the structure from the memory before starting 
> a new search?
>
> Csaba
>
>
> On Tue, 19 Dec 2006 02:22:49 +0100, Phil Middlemiss 
> <phil at tumonz.co.nz> wrote:
>
>> 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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