[Can not write data. The file could not be accessed.] [ERROR

[papyturbo]

Hi,

I am new to this forum, having tested ViceVersa for a whole month with success, then purchased 3 licences for my 3 PCs (home network, no domain, 2 mobile PCs running Win XP [1 Pro + 1 Home] + 1 tower running Vista Home Premium + 2 Iomega Lan drives, NTFS + Linksys WRT54GX router + 8 port OvisLink switch).

I very much appreciate the quality of this software and its powerful features. Bravo!!!!!!

However, I am beginning to experience more and more errors that prevent backing up files and/or synchronising 2 PCs.

1- [Can not write data. The file could not be accessed.] [ERROR].
This error started a couple of days ago, after I decided to empty some fairly large Outlook Express folders and compress all of these folders. The problem may have nothing to do with this clean up, but this is the only significant recent event that occured just before the first error of this type.
Besides, most but not all errors concern those outlook Express folders (*.dbx files). Recently also, a number of Access databases (*.mdb).

The error is followed by a windows message saying approx. (translated from french version of win.) :
"Windows could not save all data for the file "\\Target drive\targetPath\~vv1.tmp. Data has been lost. This error may be due to a failure in your equipment or network connection. Try to backup this file to another location."
All windows messages show the same "~vv1.tmp" temp. file name.

This looks like a 'volume shadow copy' problem ?

The backup (Mirror source to target) runs from a Win XP NTFS PC to an Iomega StorCenter 300Gb lan drive.

2- [Can not open "\\BOUZIN\Sources\Reed\hotfrog\Application\2007-10-16 HotfrogDataMiner, v1_00_02.zip". The file could not be accessed.] [ERROR].
Looks a bit like the previous error but situation is fairly different.
Here, I set up a profile to synchronize my work (sources + data + docs) between 2 PCs : mobile to tower, for this first run.
First trial failed with the above mentionned error.
The sync is run from the tower (Vista), which could not read some files on the mobile PC (XP).
Most, but not all, files with errors are WinZip compressed files.
From Vista, I could NOT copy or open the concerned files, though I had full access to the source paths.
Checking properly copied files, Vista shows me their attributes, including full details of security - authorisations.
Checking files with errors, it refuses to show any security settings ("You are not authorised to display or change the parameters...")
I cannot access these settings on the original XP Pro machine (unless you help me , and don't understand how, being the one and only user of both PCs, some files may have different authorisations from other files with the same type, in the same folder???

3-Delete errors
This is not so critical, as I have created a VBA macro that
- reads the VV log, searching for deletions,
- deletes the same files with a simple VBA Kill command.
It works when it can read the log, which is
- OK if I DELETE the VV log file after each run,
- fails if I EMPTY the log with a [Ctrl+A] and [Delete], then Save ????
If interested, I will give you that short macro (Excel file).

4-Accented characters
Less critical as well, though annoying.
VV does not seem to recognise some french accented file names, and keeps deleting/copying the same files again and again, even though they have not changed in months.
It does not consider the source as being the same as the target.


Thanx for help.

Etienne

[TGRMN Software]

Hello

Thank you for the detailed post.

[papyturbo]

First, thank you for such prompt reply