EInvalidOp Error!

[blithen]

An explanation of what's going on:
Alright I have FARR on a second harddrive and I installed it using the portable install and I'm trying to add the folder F:\Scripts folder to the searchable folders.
The locations of everything are:
Find and run robot, exe and config files are in F:\Programs\FARR\
The searchable folder is of course F:\Scripts
whenver I type in p it gives me that error. Removing the F:\Scripts folder from the searchable folders database makes the error go away. Any ideas?

[mouser]

I'm guessing there is a file in that directory that has a p in its name, that is somehow "evil"

Can you check the files in that folder, and look for one that might have a messed up date stamp, or messed up icon, or something else in it?

If there are a lot of files, you might try moving half of them out of their until you find the offending file (assuming i'm right that it has to do with a file that is somehow odd).

[blithen]

so I found the offending file, luckily there's only 5 scripts in the folder so it was really easy.   But it doesn't appear to have any strange attributes.
here's a picture of the properties: http://i.imgur.com/CH9qQ7j.png

[mouser]

how strange!!

can you zip and send me the batch file, assuming it's nothing sensitive?
(mouser@donationcoder.com)

[blithen]

Gmail wouldn't let me send the zip file so...here it is as an attachment.
It's nothing special so I don't care if people see it.

[mouser]

how strange, no error here when searching for it.. i wonder what it could be.. i've never seen this kind of problem before..
i might have to send you a debug version of FARR to help us pinpoint the place in code that it's dying.

[blithen]

...wow that's bizarre.
LOL, I just changed the name to headphones2 and it didn't error...
Woah, so I changed it back and error again....I have no idea man haha. Well I have a work around at the moment. It's currently named headphones! and no error haha.

[IainB]

I'm guessing there is a file in that directory that has a p in its name, that is somehow "evil"
Can you check the files in that folder, and look for one that might have a messed up date stamp, or messed up icon, or something else in it?
If there are a lot of files, you might try moving half of them out of their until you find the offending file (assuming i'm right that it has to do with a file that is somehow odd).

Just a couple of thoughts:

• 1. NTFS ADS (Alternate Data Stream):
  Is it possible that there is NTFS ADS (Alternate Data Stream) content peculiar to/attached to the file named F:\Scripts\headphones.bat , and that there is something wrong/corrupt with the data in the data stream?
  Any ADS content is lost if a file is transferred to a non-NTFS medium - e.g., it would not necessarily copy into a .zip file unless you had specifically bundled it with something like xplorer² "Bundle to go" function.
  
• 2. Start the file afresh:
  Have you tried deleting or (better) expunging the file F:\Scripts\headphones.bat, and recreating it afresh, and then seeing if the error repeats?

[mouser]

Have you tried deleting or (better) expunging the file F:\Scripts\headphones.bat, and recreating it afresh, and then seeing if the error repeats?

that is a good idea. 

[blithen]

I'm guessing there is a file in that directory that has a p in its name, that is somehow "evil"
Can you check the files in that folder, and look for one that might have a messed up date stamp, or messed up icon, or something else in it?
If there are a lot of files, you might try moving half of them out of their until you find the offending file (assuming i'm right that it has to do with a file that is somehow odd).

Just a couple of thoughts:

• 1. NTFS ADS (Alternate Data Stream):
  Is it possible that there is NTFS ADS (Alternate Data Stream) content peculiar to/attached to the file named F:\Scripts\headphones.bat , and that there is something wrong/corrupt with the data in the data stream?
  Any ADS content is lost if a file is transferred to a non-NTFS medium - e.g., it would not necessarily copy into a .zip file unless you had specifically bundled it with something like xplorer² "Bundle to go" function.
  
• 2. Start the file afresh:
  Have you tried deleting or (better) expunging the file F:\Scripts\headphones.bat, and recreating it afresh, and then seeing if the error repeats?

I have actually and still the error persists. D:

[mouser]

Fascinating.
Ok i'll be sending you a debug version -- i'm dying to learn what causes this..