Re: [SLE] Odd floppy drive behavior when using Crossover Office and SuSE 9.2

From: Synthetic Cartoonz (synthetoonz_at_bellsouth.net)
Date: 07/12/05

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Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 06:27:13 -0400

    On Tuesday 12 July 2005 01:00, John Andersen wrote:
    > On Monday 11 July 2005 03:50 pm, Gil Weber wrote:
    > > Hi, everyone. Hoping someone might have an idea and solution.
    > >
    > > I recently upgraded my Crossover Office to v 4.2. Have been using
    > > Crossover since v 3.0 and upgraded each new issue.
    > >
    > > Version 4.2 seems to work fine. But since the upgrade **every** time I
    > > open a Word, Powerpoint, or Excel file my floppy drive light comes on and
    > > the drive searches for media (which is not there).
    > >
    > > I am assuming this is not a damaging problem for my computer (other than
    > > extra wear and tear on the floppy drive).
    > >
    > > But I'm really wondering why it's happening, and if it's indicative of
    > > other, more serious problems that I should look into.
    > >
    > > Thoughts?
    > >
    > > (By the way, I no longer have the ability to post on the Crossover list
    > > serv).
    >
    > I'm guessing you have an entry in your recent document list that
    > was on the floppy. Perhaps you can clear that list , or open a number
    > of different documents sufficient to push it off the bottom of the list.

    Heck, the (real) Win XP box I'm forced to use at work regularly does a
    thrash-every-drive behavior when viewing directories that contain things
    "important" to windows. It looks to me to be things like backgrounds, and
    files on the most-recently-used list. It's windows, so it's a feature, not a
    bug, right? ;-) 

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