[Samba] recycle module creates empty files (0 KB)
Charles Marcus
CMarcus at Media-Brokers.com
Fri Feb 22 02:05:51 GMT 2008
Marcus Sobchak <lists at localguru.de> wrote:
>>> I have a strange behaviour when creating new files. When opening word,
>>> excel, ppt or txt to create a new document (e.g. I use the word icon on
>>> the desktop to start word) and save the file to the home share H: an
>>> empty (0 KB) file with the same name as the saved document is created in
>>> the trash folder. Why this second empty file in the trash folder?
>> It may something to do with the way Windows/Office works.
>>
>> When you create a new file or open an existing one, it creates a weird
>> hidden file with ~ at the beginning of the name, then deletes this when
>> the file is saved/closed.
> It just happens when creating a new file using "save as" to share H:
> I've already excluded ~$* and *.tmp files. The empty file in the trash
> folder seems not to be a temporary file.
Weird... sorry, but I don;t know what else it could be... sorry...
What version of Samba was this? aybe it is something that is fixed in
later versions?
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