[Virtualacorn-list] Windows 8.1 External drives

[Brian Jordan]

In article <54362E15A2%mik.towse at xemik.com>,
   Mik Towse <mik.towse at xemik.com> wrote:
> In article <54360a10c1brian.jordan9 at btinternet.com> Brian Jordan  wrote:
> > I have connected a USB external hard drive to my WINDOWS 8.1 machine.
> > It has two partitions which show as mounts on my VA and I am able to
> > read and write to and from both.

> I am using a USB HDD for my VRPC mounts (W8.1), but they are all on a
> single standard partition. Do you actually mean Partition or are they
> merely Wondows Folders?
I mean partitions. The drive is partitioned as Zen(X:) 70.9GB and
Orac(Z:) 78.1GB, There is a VA mount pointing to Zen, VA_backup is X:\
where SafeStore is directed.

> > However I can't delete directories, even empty ones, from the mounts
> > using VA. I repeatedly get an error box headed "Moving files" and an
> > error message "Error when renaming HostFS::VA......." and an access
> > violation message.Weirdly I can routinely both move and rename the
> > offending directories.

> I also have Windows folders mounted as drives on VRPC, but I manage
> those & the VRPC drives in VRPC without issue. So...
I too, and mounts on the C:\ drive do not have the problem I describe.

> > Presumably I have missed a setting somewhere in Windows but I can't
> > find it. Can someone throw a little light?

> ...my instinct suggests you're not running VA as Administrator or you
> haven't give file permissions to the current user.
> YOu can try running VA as Administrator to see of that makes any
> difference.
Neither running as Administrator, nor running in XP compatibility mode
seem to fix the problem.

> Alternatively, ff your VA drives are actually folders, right click in
> Windows Explorer over the folder & select Properties, then the Security
> tab. Select your user name & check the permissions. Then Edit as
> necessary.

I'm not too familiar with Windows but all users seem to have permission
to do everything everywhere.

> HTH
Thanks for trying

B

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Brian Jordan
Virtual RPC-AdjustSA on Windows 8.1 Pro
RISC OS 6.20
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