scott wrote:
>> After waiting for it to get to 97% of the download and finally giving 
>> up and going to dinner, I come back after 2 hours to find a dialog box 
>> saying "This is going to take about an hour to install what you just 
>> downloaded. Are you sure you want to start it?"
> 
> Hehe, I was copying over about 80GB of data to an external harddrive, I 
> watched it for about 5 minutes while it was "discovering files" or some 
> such until it said 2 hours 53 remaining or whatever.  I came back a few 
> hours later and there was a "Do you want to copy this file without it's 
> properties?" dialog box and it had hardly started the copying!  Is it 
> too hard to ask that it continues to copy other files while it is 
> waiting for you to answer a question about one file?
> 
Oh, hell. My number one pet peeve... Move a directory, or like 200 
files. ***One*** frakking file, like 21 files in is "in use" by some 
process some place, and you don't remember that, so Windows not only 
pops up a damn dialog telling you that its in use, it promptly stops 
transferring ***any*** of the other files. Mind, this may be like 3-4 
files out of the 200 that are in that state, and your just trying to 
move the other ones, knowing its going to be easier to do that, than 
hand select all the ones you do want to copy, and spend an hour trying 
to work out which ones you can't/don't want moved (i.e., maybe you don't 
really want it to move the data files you have open for Paint Shop Pro, 
but you "do" want to move all the movie files in the directory, or 
something.. But, no, the moment it hits a "sorry, you can't move a file 
already in use", it gets completely stupid, and won't copy any other 
files either. Sigh...

Then again.. Painshop Pro X2. Morons, for no sane reason, since you 
can't edit/open/play them, decided to do two things that are just 
asinine, 1) have it scan for "all" recognized media, even the ones it 
can't open, with no option to turn this off, and 2) scan all 
subdirectories in the path you have open, again, with no way to turn it 
off. Got a lot of damn images, clips, etc. in My Documents. First time I 
ran the thing it spent 30 minutes looking, then I nuked it. Second time, 
I let it run, and it took almost 2 hours. No idea why, except that it 
seems to also be scanning to "contents" of the damn files too, so, of 
course, a 800M video is going to take it a million years to look 
through, before deciding it doesn't contain anything else it can do 
anything with. Needless to say, unless they correct this issue, there 
isn't going to be a PSPX3 on this machine, and I still use the older 
PSPX version for all my editing, since it doesn't have this problem.

Mind you, the MS file handling annoys me a lot more, since I can't 
downgrade to a version that doesn't bloody do it. lol


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void main () {
   If Schrödingers_cat is alive or version > 98 {
     if version = "Vista" {
       call slow_by_half();
       call DRM_everything();
     }
     call functional_code();
   }
   else
     call crash_windows();
}

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