Hey codies, I need your help.

I need to copy a file that's constantly "locked" by the application that's using it, WHILE it's using it. I tried patching the app to pass ShareMode = FILE_SHARE_READ|FILE_SHARE_WRITE on every call to CreateFile, but it doesn't work.

Any ideas that do NOT involve VSS?

Help would be greatly appreciated.

Update: the patch worked, *I* wasn't closing the fucking file when I had to. I deserve to be shot.

An acquaintance of an acquaintance of a friend

-slowmaker (June 23, 2010, 03:38 PM)

I smell trouble.

is asking if I will set up their web site for them

-slowmaker (June 23, 2010, 03:38 PM)

UH OH!

and I realized I have no idea what to charge for an old fashioned setup-the-domain-and-stick-a-few-static-pages-on-there-for-them site.

-slowmaker (June 23, 2010, 03:38 PM)

There's a reason for that!

There will be no ongoing maintenance,

-slowmaker (June 23, 2010, 03:38 PM)

That's what you think!

no shopping cart (or any other) scripting to deal with.

-slowmaker (June 23, 2010, 03:38 PM)

That's what you think! (2.0)

Design effort on my part will be minimal, if any (will probably consist mostly of convincing them not to use some eye-watering background image they think is beautiful). 

-slowmaker (June 23, 2010, 03:38 PM)

Do I have to say that again? :)

Any suggestions for a fair price ballpark?

-slowmaker (June 23, 2010, 03:38 PM)

Ask a pro designer, charge 75% of that.

Here in Australia most public 'puters are set up with limited rights i.e. not admin so you can't actually launch apps from a usb. Similar in the USA /Europe?

-Clive (June 17, 2010, 03:04 AM)

Here you have full admin rights and comuters are protected with Faronics Deep Freeze, so you get a fresh-installed desktop each time, at least on most cybercafé/school networks.