said:
>
> You too need to complain to the folks that make the mp3 player. It is
> their inflexible design that makes it incompatible with normal OS/2
> operations that have existed for close to a decade.
I will but any guess what the response is going to be? Sorry, OS/2 is not
supported.
> >This was my first approach but this didn't work. Basically using EAUTIL
> >requires specifying the filenames of all filenames that need to be
> >processed meaning somehow logging all the new files that were added to
> >the player. This seemed impractical at best and impossible at worst.
>
> Humm. My POV is it is simple. A dir command will show which files have
> EA. The dir command output can be filtered by a simple REXX program that
> issues the eautil commands.
What is it that determines when the column of EA numbers appear and not.
Sometimes, they appear as the extra column next to the normal size column. It
doesn't appear consistent. In any case, see my Experiment #1 why this isn't
enough.
> This is where you need dfsee. Once you eject the drive, dfsee can get
> access to the raw drive bypassing the FAT file system driver that would
> otherwise lock the file.
It looks like this may be my only solution. I'll try that next if the response
to my Experiment #1 is unsuccessful.
> You don't actually have to delete the file with dfsee. All you need to do
> is rename it and then you can just delete it.
>
> >the file. I'll be better about documenting exactly what I did so that if
> >it doesn't work, I can produce the documentation.
>
> Good plan. This is more likely to allow any problems you do have to be
> resolved.
See Experiment #1 request.
> Steven
-Rocky
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