"You have files waiting to be written to CD"???

[(PeteCresswell)]

This message started popping a couple of weeks ago.

Looks like somebody managed to que my entire data drive to be written to CD.

I double click on the CD burner icon with no CD in it, and all those "Data
Drive" files/folders are there.


I would have thought that they were just shortcuts or pointers - and if I
deleted them, the "You have files waiting to be written to CD" would go away and
all would be well.

Turns out that the prompt goes away all right.... but the actual folders/files
on the data drive get deleted too.


Can anybody offer up an explaination of what's going on?


To reiterate/summarize: The core problem seems to be that if I try to delete one
of those folders/files that are qued on the CD burner, the actual source
file/folder on my data drive gets deleted instead of just the pointer/shortcut
behind the CD burner.

 

[V Green]

Look back about a week ago in this NG.

Another user had the same problem, he solved it
with a registry edit.

 

[(PeteCresswell)]

Per V Green:

Look back about a week ago in this NG.

Another user had the same problem, he solved it
with a registry edit.

Only one I could find was my own thread
"Files Qued TB Written To CD: Remove?" posted about 3 weeks ago on 12/30.

Some sort of registry entry is what I was suspecting as the fix thought.

 

[V Green]

Pete:

My bad. It was on:

microsoft.public.windowsxp.configuration_manage

Here's the Google groups thread:

http://groups.google.com/group/micr...411cfb?lnk=gst&q=burn&rnum=2#e5cfab55c8411cfb

 

[(PeteCresswell)]

Per V Green:

Here's the Google groups thread:

http://groups.google.com/group/micr...411cfb?lnk=gst&q=burn&rnum=2#e5cfab55c8411cfb

Thanks. Reading the thread, it looks like precisely the same situation I've
got.

Now I've just got to suck it up and see if I can change the registry without
fouling anything else up. Not a big deal, bc I've got a fairly recent sys
image squirreled away.

Thanks again.

 

[(PeteCresswell)]

Per (PeteCresswell):

an explaination

I think I nailed it.

Couldn't find the registry group referred to in vGreen's reference, but I did
what the other guy did: searched for "CD Burner" and changed the UNC whenever
it pointed to drive W: (which was the drive that somebody had apparently
dragged/dropped on the CD drive).

 

[V Green]

Thanks for letting us know it worked, Pete.

That's twice now for a resolution to a nasty problem -
it'll go in my "wierdness solvers" collection.