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[Eos]

About 3 months ago, I successfully setup a simple shared drive thingy between the 2 machines in my home office. 2 XP Pro machines, each with a NIC for their own internet connection and another NIC on each for sharing files via X-over cable.

We've been moving files back and forth without incident since setup, and it's a great thing. Everyone should do it!

Last Saturday night, I went over to her machine and downloaded two files from an http source. After completion, I opened up her drive through my Run box and selected the files, hit ctrl+C, then open my destination folder and hit ctrl+V. I got the "file is in use or copyright protected or drive is full" error. Alrighty. I tried to move another file downloaded via BT and it came over without error.

I shut down her computer, restarted and tried it again with the same result. I tried another BT file and it came over as well.

Any ideas what happened? How could the downlaod source be related to it's copyright level? I checked for read only on the files and they were not checked.

Thanks for any help.

 

[Slowlearner]

I would check the attributes of the directory where these particular downloaded files where placed - it may not be shared, or archive only etc etc

 

[Eos]

Originally posted by: Slowlearner
I would check the attributes of the directory where these particular downloaded files where placed - it may not be shared, or archive only etc etc

I didn't make it clear in the first post. All files are downloaded to the same folder on her system. BT or http. When I was denied the http files, I tried the bt file from the same folder and it came over.