Not enough storage is available to complete this operation-only onVista

[ram.gct]

My application has a drag drop feature from the browser to desktop. On
doing a drag drop, an export of file is performed. A progres dialog is
shown and after this I get this error from OS "Not enough storage is
available to complete this operation". This happens only on Windows
Vista. The memory available on the m/c is large and am not sure what
has to be done to overcome this. Please help. Thanks.

 

[Liam Roche]

I have been frustrated by hundreds of similar errors from Windows Vista
Business over the last year.

My understanding is that there is a major bug in the memory management in
Vista which means that even though there is a large amount of free memory,
the system acts as if it was completely out of memory. Microsoft's de facto
monopoly will no doubt mean they can continue to make no serious effort to
fix this.

 

[Bender]

If you are copying a file larger than 4GB then the target location has to be
formatted as NTFS.

 

[Malke]

My application has a drag drop feature from the browser to desktop. On
doing a drag drop, an export of file is performed. A progres dialog is
shown and after this I get this error from OS "Not enough storage is
available to complete this operation". This happens only on Windows
Vista. The memory available on the m/c is large and am not sure what
has to be done to overcome this. Please help. Thanks.

You say "my application". Is this an application you wrote? If so, you
should post in a developer's newsgroup to see where you need to change your
code. If this is a third-party program that you didn't write, contact the
maker of the program for support. It may not be compatible with Vista,
there may be a workaround, patch, or upgrade required. Only the program's
tech support people will know this.

Malke

 

[ram.gct]

It happens for small file sizes as well.. I use a plugin to handle the
drag drop from browser to my desktop. I debugged my code and could'nt
find any exceptions being thrown as well.. Since the error is from the
OS, just wondering what changes has been done in memory management
side in Vista that causes this problem. Any OS setting can help ?

Ram.