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A little FAQ
1Q: esv doesn't work after a couple of times.
1A: Make sure that there are no other es5.exe processes running in the background. ES5.exe usually doesn't exit completely, so use taskmgr.exe (or press CTRL+SHIFT+ESC) to kill all es5.exe processes. Then start es5.exe and try esv again.
It can also happen if es5.exe hasn't initialized all its server code. Wait a couple of seconds before running esv so es5.exe has time to initialize its network code.
Another possibility is that the UDP packets sent from esv to es5.exe are lost. Try a couple of more times and at least one should reach its destination intact.
2Q: I can't delete files on the other computer
2A: You can't delete files until the other computer's es5.exe's Search Service has updated number of files it's sharing. Go to Activity to check Search Service on the other computer (make sure you have enabled option "Enable ALL activity" in Settings or you won't see it). Then wait for usually 30-60 secs after startup for the "Search Service" line to change from "Clients:0 Files:0" to something like "Clients:1 Files:3". Now delete your files. If you're not a Sun/Star, you should instead wait until the "Sun: NAME SuperNova: NAME" line changes from "Sharing Files:0 Megs:0" to something like "Sharing Files:2 Megs:0".
Make sure that the path to the shared folder is correct. You can find the correct path if you check the other computer's ES5 settings. Copy and paste it because it must be the exact same string. Example, if the path is "C:\Program Files\EarthStation5\New Media Files", it's possible that ES5 instead uses "C:\Progra~1\EarthStation5\New Media Files", or "C:\PROGRAM FILES\EARTHSTATION5\New Media Files" or any other combination.
Also note that you cannot delete files with relative paths containing a double backaslash followed by two dots ("\\..") under Win98 (and probably also Win95 and WinME). There's a bug in es5.exe where it will use double backslashes. Example, if the shared dir is "C:\Program Files\EarthStation5\New Media Files", then es5.exe will save that as "C:\Program Files\EarthStation5\New Media Files\" (note the last backslash). If you want to delete the file "C:\WINDOWS\NOTEPAD.EXE", you could specify this relative path as the "filename" "..\..\..\WINDOWS\NOTEPAD.EXE". es5.exe will put these two strings together like so: "C:\Program Files\EarthStation5\New Media Files\\..\..\..\WINDOWS\NOTEPAD.EXE" (note the double backslash). Windows XP (and probably WinNT, Win2000, Win2003) can delete these files, though. Note that all Windows OSes can delete all user's shared files without a
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