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| Thread ID: 39851 | 2003-11-19 23:32:00 | PGP disks not unmounting | argus (366) | Press F1 |
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| 193169 | 2003-11-19 23:32:00 | I have for a short time been using PGPdisk to create protected storage volumes. The contents of such a volume are stored in encrypted form as a *.pgd file, and the volume is "mounted" either from the PGP menu or by "opening" the *.pgd file through its icon in the usual way (Windows XP) - passphrase needed, naturally. When you're finished with the PGPdisk volumes you "unmount" (demount, dismount?) them by going to an item on the PGP menu "Unmount all disks". Naturally, if you've left any application using or looking at the volume or any file on it (including directory-tree windows), you get an error message "This PGP disk cannot be closed because another user or program is accessing it," or words to that effect. However, I routinely get the message now when I have been careful to close everything that might be using the voulme; in fact, I have no visible application running on the machine; and it's still telling me that "another user or program" is looking at the volume. The only way to get the virtual volume to close down is to reboot. It occurs to me it may be a Trojan, but nothing shows up on a scan with Norton AV. With SimplySuperSoftware's Trojan remover, I have another problem, which I will air separately. Is there any other reason some program may have got hold of these PGPdisk virtual volumes without being visible. It's only been happening for the past week or so; before that, the PGPdisk volumes always unmounted in good order. Any ideas? Argus |
argus (366) | ||
| 193170 | 2003-11-20 01:22:00 | I run drive crypt (newer version of same code base) I have had much the same problem, it is often just the cache sill waiting with data to be writen to the disk. if the disk is left idle for about 10 miuntes then it will un-mount. some times it will never un-mount, my version of drive-crypt has a "un-mount brutal" command and that works every time but you risk loss of data. |
robsonde (120) | ||
| 193171 | 2003-11-20 01:55:00 | If that's the problem, there ought to be a "flush" command somewhere there. Of course, you shouldn't need such a command, it should be done automatically when you unmount the volume. ;-) | Graham L (2) | ||
| 193172 | 2003-11-20 05:30:00 | Simple solution. :) PGP Options -> PGP Disk tab -> under Unmount Options check both tick boxes. If you have closed all the programs/files inside the volume then PGP is just being retarded. Forcibly unmount it - it won't do any damage I'm sure. By the way, instead of going through the menus to unmount all the pgp disks, assign it to a hotkey, in the hotkeys tab ie. ctrl+alt+F9 unmounts it all. |
aroc (3256) | ||
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