Can't stop in the middle of a file copy?

FinalBuilder Bugs
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A big Copy File(s) action went awry. Neither the soft stop (square button) or hard stop (square button) would actually stop it.

(Incidentally I notice that FBS uses two different icons for soft/hard stop: a square button and an octagonal one).

Steve

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Hi Steve,

Thanks for reporting this. Unfortunately, sometimes if a Windows API call hangs, then there is literally nothing we can do to fix it, we just have to wait for it to come back, or force-quit FinalBuilder (if you click on the Close button in FinalBuilder while stopping, it’ll ask you if you want to force-quit.)

Do you have any idea what made the file copy hang?

- Angus

PS If you look, the Terminate button (what you’re calling Hard Stop) is actually octagonal as well, it’s just not a very big octagon.

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Oh, it didn’t hang - it was just a big copy, copying lots, and lots, and lots, and lots of files. I had an error where it was copying the entire hard drive instead of a single directory. So after a few minutes I realised what was happening, and wanted to abort it. And couldn’t. It was still displaying the names of individual files it was copying, so it’s not like it got stuck in the middle of a single file.

Steve

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Hi Steve,

Oh, OK. In that case I’ll take a look at it.

Regards,

Angus

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Hi Steve,

As far as I can tell, the Terminate button always makes the copy stop. Are you sure it’s not working?

Regards,

Angus

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Trying to reproduce, and yeah, terminate seems to kill it properly. I think when this happened, the “source” for the copy would actually have been “*." (no drive or path specification). If it happens again, I’ll try and record the precise details.

Incidentally, the fact that copying from "*.” works at all is a bit surprising.

Steve