| From: | Niels de Koning |
| Date: | 8 Oct 2000 at 00:19:25 |
| Subject: | [D5] Re: Shortened shown filenames |
> But I´found that the filetypes didn´t recognized, because DOpus was
> searching for versions of the files put to my MP3-directory. Who is
> working with this feature of DOpus knows how long this takes time on
> big files like MP3 ;-) Snoopdos did :) and shows working, working
> working working.... slow and never ending. So Dopus was still busy!
Yes, I have seen this kind of behaviour on my system as well. For me it
wasn't only on large files but also on small files of just a few bytes.
For me the lister stayed locked while Opus was busy, but that might
depend on the kind of command you are running. As it turned out the
problem for me was a certain filetype (or combination of filetypes, I
don't know and can't remember). But I am not sure if this problem is the
same problem as the one you are talking about....
> Bad combination of faults, but one stays: Shortened filenames.
>
> Info to Neil Bothwick: Does your Arexx ClearListerCache.dopus5 only
> work with Hotlist.module? It really doesn´t work here...
What Neils script does is close the current lister and create a new
lister in its place, but I haven't tested it myself. I thought myself
that the listercache was not related to one single lister in DOpus, but
to ALL OPEN listers. This means that closing one single lister does not
change the contents of the directorycaches.
But cleaning the directory-caches IS the solution I use for this
problem. Whenever I suffer from those shortened filenames I have to
issue a "FreeChaches" command to solve the problem. It is important
though that NONE of the currently open listers show the directory with
the shortened filenames, because if this were the case the directory
would not be flushed from the caches which would mean the problem will
not be solved. When I access the directory after the caches are freed,
Dopus has to re-read the directory and everything is fine again.
Regards,
// Niels de Koning
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