reducing waiting time on locked files

[solid]

Hello.
When i try to delete or move or something on a locked file, TC hangs for a while and after some time display "Skip, retry....." box.

Is there a way to reduce this waiting time, i.e. if the operation cannot be performed, the box to show up after a second or two.

I guess that this can be windows, not TC issue, but anyway some solution is welcome.

[Sheepdog]

As you guessed in your post: It is Windows related and no, sorry, it can't be helped. As workaround you may use a second instance of TC.

sheepdog

[majkinetor]

Remember that little utility Unlocker ?

Well, it should be implemented in TC.

[Sheepdog]

But that would not decrease the time until Winows recognizes that a file is locked and reports it to TC, wouldn't it?

sheepdog

[icfu]

German thread:
http://www.ghisler.ch/board/viewtopic.php?t=4451

ghisler said that he tries to delete first via recycle bin and if this fails he tries to delete directly, this means that the waiting time doubles:
In Explorer it is five seconds, in TC it is 10 seconds.

He has shown no interest to fix that, resp. he has told something about that some drives don't work with recycle bin and that's why needs to do it both way.

It still sucks, I agree.

Workaround is to use Explorer deletion method which is way faster anyway but also very dangerous if you are working with junctions and it doesn't support descript.ion files of course.

Icfu

[majkinetor]

@ Sheepdog

It certanly can be fixed, like anything else in the world.
On my machine unlocker can instantly say if file is locked or not. Also other utilities, like console tool handle by SysInternals can show you locked file in a realtime. Procedure like this (pseudocode)

if FileLocked(file) then Unlock(file)
delete(file)

can be implemented... I can do this in batch faster then TC with handle.exe. Something like

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   set FNAME=%1
   handle "%FNAME%"| find "%FNAME%"
   if ERRORLEVEL 0 handle -close %FNAME%
   del %FNAME%

will do the trick faster then TC

So.. Ghisler just think it is not so big problem. I found this pattern in his behavior.

[solid]

So there is not any hidden windows registry setting that can allow this time to be decreased?

[icfu]

Have you read my posting? Anything unclear?

Icfu