I have a very consistent crash of my entire Vista laptop when using Synchronize It! 2.82 to copy a number of large files either to or from Vista over Ethernet to another system (Windows 2000) -- whether Synchronize It! is running on the Vista system or on the Windows 2000 system!
This is the only situation under which my Vista system crashes -- I can do bulk copies with other tools and have no problems. However, it is very repeatable, even if 2.82 isn't running on the Vista system.
I must admit, it seems bizarre.
Vista crashes -- even when winsin is running elsewhere!
a few extra details on the crash
The crash is just a system hang -- totally non-responsive, requiring a forced power off.
The laptop is a dual core Pentium with Vista Home Premium.
There is nothing in the event log indicative of the problem.
The laptop is a dual core Pentium with Vista Home Premium.
There is nothing in the event log indicative of the problem.
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After rebooting the Vista system, I left it running the login screen -- I did not login to Vista. I ran Synchronize It! successfully (and repeatedly) from the Windows 2000 system with the Vista system as the file destination.
I suppose something that runs when I login is interfering in some way.
Bob
I suppose something that runs when I login is interfering in some way.
Bob
well, the workaround doesn't always workaround
I just had a system hang with Vista NOT logged in -- so that doesn't always avoid the problem.
Some followup: this appears to be a known Vista problem
Vista appears to have a number of known problems with file copying over the network to non-Vista systems. Symptoms include slow operation, file corruption, blue screens, and system hangs.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/931770/en-us
http://www.chicagotech.net/vista/vistaslow.htm
http://www.petri.co.il/tweaking_window_ ... rmance.htm
http://groups.google.com/group/microsof ... 04bbeba19b
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/931770/en-us
http://www.chicagotech.net/vista/vistaslow.htm
http://www.petri.co.il/tweaking_window_ ... rmance.htm
http://groups.google.com/group/microsof ... 04bbeba19b
an update: Vista SP1 doesn't hang, still some copy errors
I'm now running Vista SP1, still running latest Synchronize It! V3.3.
Vista (almost) never hangs any more during a large copy sequence.
However, some of the individual file copies still fail, always large (10 MB+) files. This happens especially often if I haven't just restarted Vista (so I do a lot of restarting Vista to improve my chances).
Sometimes the error is "path to network partner lost" for a particular file copy, and then the next copies in the list are OK.
Another thing I noticed is that these sessions (involving hundreds of files, about 30-40 big ones over 100 MB) either succeed completely or have a significant number of failing files. I rarely have just one failure in a session, although I often have perfect sessions (no failures).
Bob
Vista (almost) never hangs any more during a large copy sequence.
However, some of the individual file copies still fail, always large (10 MB+) files. This happens especially often if I haven't just restarted Vista (so I do a lot of restarting Vista to improve my chances).
Sometimes the error is "path to network partner lost" for a particular file copy, and then the next copies in the list are OK.
Another thing I noticed is that these sessions (involving hundreds of files, about 30-40 big ones over 100 MB) either succeed completely or have a significant number of failing files. I rarely have just one failure in a session, although I often have perfect sessions (no failures).
Bob
Try using 3.4 beta - maybe vista manifest will help somehow.
http://www.grigsoft.com/wndsyncbu.zip
http://www.grigsoft.com/wndsyncbu.zip