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Hi,
using Windows 7 Home Premium, Installation ist about two weeks old.
Problem: I have media files (films, to be precise) on a hard drive. Often, I want to change their location (e.g., move films that are lying around in root to a common folder with the name of the director).
80% of the time, I cannot do this.
I get the message: "moving".... then after 5 secs or so popup "this file cannot be moved, since it is already opened in Explorer".
To fix this problem, i downloaded one of the UNLOCKER-Programs. When i use this program, it tells me that the process blocking the files is... multiple instances of the file itself??!!
e.g., I have E:/Film123.avi - UNLOCKER tells me:
"File is being locked by:
E:/Film123.avi
E:/Film123.avi
E:/Film123.avi
E:/Film123.avi
E:/Film123.avi
E:/Film123.avi
E:/Film123.avi
E:/Film123.avi"
I can use Unlocker to unlock these - but instantly, the files gets blocked again by multiple instances with this name.
I´m getting MAD about this ;-). I just want to move my files!
I have VLC player installed - but I doubt it causes the problem - it always worked fine on vista, and how can a video player block ALL media files?
However, if "VLC player" isn´t the culprit, it must be Windows 7.
Thx for the help
using Windows 7 Home Premium, Installation ist about two weeks old.
Problem: I have media files (films, to be precise) on a hard drive. Often, I want to change their location (e.g., move films that are lying around in root to a common folder with the name of the director).
80% of the time, I cannot do this.
I get the message: "moving".... then after 5 secs or so popup "this file cannot be moved, since it is already opened in Explorer".
To fix this problem, i downloaded one of the UNLOCKER-Programs. When i use this program, it tells me that the process blocking the files is... multiple instances of the file itself??!!
e.g., I have E:/Film123.avi - UNLOCKER tells me:
"File is being locked by:
E:/Film123.avi
E:/Film123.avi
E:/Film123.avi
E:/Film123.avi
E:/Film123.avi
E:/Film123.avi
E:/Film123.avi
E:/Film123.avi"
I can use Unlocker to unlock these - but instantly, the files gets blocked again by multiple instances with this name.
I´m getting MAD about this ;-). I just want to move my files!
I have VLC player installed - but I doubt it causes the problem - it always worked fine on vista, and how can a video player block ALL media files?
However, if "VLC player" isn´t the culprit, it must be Windows 7.
Thx for the help