Odd Occurrence--Crash x2 & 2x

Brig · Post by **Brig** » 2003 Jul 09, 20:17

Howdy:

Working in x2, I was cleaning out the "Send to" folder and I wanted to delete the shortcuts to "3 1/2 Floppy (A)," "Mail Recipient," and "My Documents." I selected them in reverse alphabetical order, but when I clicked on "3 1/2 Floppy (A)" up popped the error box saying that x2 had referenced a bad address (or words to that effect). I clicked OK and x2 went away. I figured, well, it's still an alpha. So I started 2x, did the exact same things, and very surprisingly got the same result (error box, bad address). I started Windows Explorer, selected and deleted the short cuts, no problem.

Just wanted to point this out. I know some of those "Send to" items aren't normal short cuts. Can anyone recreate this?

Otherwise x2 has worked flawlessly (and 2x, of course).

Best regards,
Brig

Post by **nikos** » 2003 Jul 10, 08:44

first of all i can't reproduce that so if it is reproducible after reboot etc, please email me the dbmon output. I can both select and delete them

coming to the SendTo folder, it is a regular filesystem folder so you shouldn't have problems -- that you don't experience in normal folders

the "special" items are files with size 0 that have weird "extensions" (check the extension or the full name columns). That's how windows figure out which object clsid will be the target

Brig · Post by **Brig** » 2003 Jul 10, 13:09

Thanks, Nikos. I'll have to get back to you on Monday about this (traveling now). I discovered it late yesterday and couldn't do much testing.

Brig · Post by **Brig** » 2003 Jul 14, 18:45

Nikos:

I will email you the dbmon results. Here I'll just say that all I did was go to the directory that has the links I removed from "Send to" and clicked once on the "3 1/2 Floppy" shortcut. The result was a message box saying there was no disk in drive A (as though I'd double clicked); the box had three options: cancel, try again, and continue. I clicked cancel and x2 crashed (box saying bad memory addressed).

Note: I just tried it again and this time the "no disk in drive A" message appeared as the mouse merely hovered over the "3 1/2 Floppy" shortcut. Possible contributing factor: I use a shell extension called InfoTip that enhances the info in the tool tips for various file types.

Thanks a lot,
Brig