Now, as it happens, in the past I’ve seen Windows Search Indexing locking external drives, but I’d already made sure that the drive isn’t indexed by turning off the flag in the properties window:Īnd if I look at the Indexing Options in Control Panel I see this: Now given I’m on a laptop and I usually want to leave work at the end of the day I’ll Safely Remove the drive from my laptop before packing up, but now when I do I get either the infamous “Windows can't stop your 'Generic Volume' device because it is in use” message or the “Problem Ejecting USB Mass Storage Device” message as shown:īut I closed Media Player (and everything else) so it can’t be locking files can it? Now, as you would expect I wanted my music into these programs automatically I included the music folder in my library as shown: ![]() Now even though I have iPods and iPhones, for playing that music from my laptop, ITunes on Windows is pretty poor so I’ve tended to use Media Player and, more recently, Zune for that task. ![]() I have a lovely new 1TB external hard drive and moved all my music onto it a short while ago.
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