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alphaleonis / AlphaFS

AlphaFS is a .NET library providing more complete Win32 file system functionality to the .NET platform than the standard System.IO classes.
http://alphafs.alphaleonis.com/
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Request help reproducing behaviour #530

Open mdell-seradex opened 1 year ago

mdell-seradex commented 1 year ago

I have been trying to write a routine to reproduce behaviour I have seen occur on several machines. From what I can tell, it appears to be due to transactional NTFS, but I cannot seem to reproduce it. The specific behaviour when a file is affected is this:

  1. I can move and rename the file without issues.
  2. If I attempt to delete the file, it appears to delete, but when I refresh the folder, it re-appears. After the attempted deletion, I cannot create a new file with the same name in that folder until after I reboot.

I have tried to create a Visual Studio solution using this library to use transactional NTFS on a specific file. While the file is opened by my test application, I am unable to delete the file. Windows reports that it is locked by my app. When the app closes the file, but the transaction has not been closed, I can immediately delete the file with no issues. It does not re-appear after a refresh.

Note that I have tried posting this to stack overflow, but have not received any responses that reproduce this behaviour. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/72181020/how-to-simulate-a-specific-style-of-file-locking-where-file-deletes-appear-to-be I don't do a lot on stack overflow, so I don't have hardly any reputation to offer as a bounty.

Maybe I am going down the wrong path. I know this isn't the best way to ask this, but I don't know a good avenue to do this. I greatly appreciate any feedback you can provide.