New Photos Suddenly Locked to Network

[Guest]

I've got a Nikon Coolpix 2500 that connects via usb. (XP Home SP2.)

First, a few weeks ago we stopped getting the "safely remove device" icon in
the tray. So after downloading photos we have no choice but to turn off the
camera. Till recently this has not seemed to hurt anything.

Last week we installed a 2nd HD, formatted NTFS and moved the My Photos
folder there. All photos and folders work fine on both host and networked XP
Home pc.

However, _new_ photos downloaded since the HD move will not open on the
networked machine. The old photos still do, even in the same folder as new
ones that won't. Host machine can copy the photos onto the networked machine
and there the networked machine can use them just fine. No other software is
doing this on the host pc. New files created with Word for example are opened
on the network just fine.

Networked machine reads new photos as "locked" and says to use Explore to
unlock them.

But using Explore on the host machine, we get no lock/unlock option in any
menus.

We have set the partition as active, and everything else on the HD works
fine to the network.

Any ideas about the locking problem? Could it be related to the
disappearance of the "safely remove hardware" option?

Thanks for any help

 

[John Inzer]

I've got a Nikon Coolpix 2500 that connects via usb. (XP
Home SP2.)

First, a few weeks ago we stopped getting the "safely
remove device" icon in the tray. So after downloading
photos we have no choice but to turn off the camera. Till
recently this has not seemed to hurt anything.

Last week we installed a 2nd HD, formatted NTFS and moved
the My Photos folder there. All photos and folders work
fine on both host and networked XP Home pc.

However, _new_ photos downloaded since the HD move will
not open on the networked machine. The old photos still
do, even in the same folder as new ones that won't. Host
machine can copy the photos onto the networked machine
and there the networked machine can use them just fine.
No other software is doing this on the host pc. New files
created with Word for example are opened on the network
just fine.

Networked machine reads new photos as "locked" and says
to use Explore to unlock them.

But using Explore on the host machine, we get no
lock/unlock option in any menus.

We have set the partition as active, and everything else
on the HD works fine to the network.

Any ideas about the locking problem? Could it be related
to the disappearance of the "safely remove hardware"
option?

Thanks for any help

====================================
Maybe the following article will offer some ideas:

(812937) File Lock or Access Denied Error
Message When You Save Files Over the Network
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/812937/en-us

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[Guest]

Thanks, John,

I've got a Nikon Coolpix 2500 that connects via usb. (XP
Home SP2.)

However, _new_ photos downloaded since the HD move will
not open on the networked machine. [....]

Networked machine reads new photos as "locked" and says
to use Explore to unlock them.

====================================
Maybe the following article will offer some ideas:

(812937) File Lock or Access Denied Error
Message When You Save Files Over the Network
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/812937/en-us

The article appears to say this was corrected with SP2. We already have SP2
on both machines. Sadly, Nikon does not appear to have newer versions of
their software. And we're not really saving over the network, only trying to
_open_ them over the network.

I'll study the article further of course. Tonight I'll experiment with
saving photos on the host machine's original C: drive which I believe is a
FAT format since it was previously Win98.

 

[Guest]

This problem ONLY happens on the new NTFS drive (drive F.

When I downloaded a new photo onto the FAT C: drive, the file was openable
by the networked computer.

It's something relating to the new hard drive and the Nikon software. It's
only this hard drive, and only the Nikon software, and only newly created
files.