Hello,
here's a strange phenomenon I am hoping you can help me with:
- Eraser 5.86.1 on WinXPSP3
- Two users set up with administrator privileges
One fine day I set up Eraser to erase a particular file daily at 22h:
"c:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\Puzzer\Anwendungsdaten\EPSON\ESCNDV\ES0032\FULL.bmp"
(this is where Epson TWAIN software saves the pre-scan when you scan anything. If you don't erase this, the next time you start TWAIN it shows this pre-scan of the previous scan, which can be either annoying, compromising or even embarrassing. )
Erasing worked fine. BTW: no other scheduled erasing tasks defined.
After some days I changed the setting to "Every reboot" (because I seldom leave the system on up to 22h).
Since then, every time I (user Puzzer) log in I am greeted by Eraser's error message:
"File not found. Nothing to erase. c:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\Puzzer\Anwendungsdaten\EPSON\ESCNDV\ES0032\FULL.bmp"
OK, when you don't scan there will be no FULL.bmp to erase, and I did tell Eraser to report only in case of errors. It could be seen as an error if the file is not there.
But it starts to bug me, so I revert the schedule to "Every Day at 22h".
And now it gets weird: I STILL kept on getting the error message upon login. :?
Second attempt at solving the issue: maybe Eraser needs to erase the file successfully one time to be free to revert to the 22h schedule. So I pre-scan and thus create the file. No problems when logging in once. I expect that the matter is now closed. Not so, more messages upon subsequent logins.
Third step: I delete the task from the scheduler altogether! Eraser is bare, both in scheduler and ad-hoc. No success, same message. :shock:
Desperate, I uninstall Eraser (Admin account). Reboot. New install of Eraser. Log in as Puzzer: you guessed it: the message is back!
I assume that this task was coded into the registry as an start-up task and was not properly deleted again. Not so, the filename is nowhere to be found in the registry.
Next I search for the filename in all files and find it in C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\Puzzer\schedlog.txt, only a log. But there it even says:
"Removed a task (C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\Puzzer\Anwendungsdaten\EPSON\ESCNDV\ES0032\FULL.bmp)."
Still those messages come... spooky! :twisted:
Is there any obvious mistake in my procedure or, better still, a solution?
here's a strange phenomenon I am hoping you can help me with:
- Eraser 5.86.1 on WinXPSP3
- Two users set up with administrator privileges
One fine day I set up Eraser to erase a particular file daily at 22h:
"c:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\Puzzer\Anwendungsdaten\EPSON\ESCNDV\ES0032\FULL.bmp"
(this is where Epson TWAIN software saves the pre-scan when you scan anything. If you don't erase this, the next time you start TWAIN it shows this pre-scan of the previous scan, which can be either annoying, compromising or even embarrassing. )
Erasing worked fine. BTW: no other scheduled erasing tasks defined.
After some days I changed the setting to "Every reboot" (because I seldom leave the system on up to 22h).
Since then, every time I (user Puzzer) log in I am greeted by Eraser's error message:
"File not found. Nothing to erase. c:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\Puzzer\Anwendungsdaten\EPSON\ESCNDV\ES0032\FULL.bmp"
OK, when you don't scan there will be no FULL.bmp to erase, and I did tell Eraser to report only in case of errors. It could be seen as an error if the file is not there.
But it starts to bug me, so I revert the schedule to "Every Day at 22h".
And now it gets weird: I STILL kept on getting the error message upon login. :?
Second attempt at solving the issue: maybe Eraser needs to erase the file successfully one time to be free to revert to the 22h schedule. So I pre-scan and thus create the file. No problems when logging in once. I expect that the matter is now closed. Not so, more messages upon subsequent logins.
Third step: I delete the task from the scheduler altogether! Eraser is bare, both in scheduler and ad-hoc. No success, same message. :shock:
Desperate, I uninstall Eraser (Admin account). Reboot. New install of Eraser. Log in as Puzzer: you guessed it: the message is back!
I assume that this task was coded into the registry as an start-up task and was not properly deleted again. Not so, the filename is nowhere to be found in the registry.
Next I search for the filename in all files and find it in C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\Puzzer\schedlog.txt, only a log. But there it even says:
"Removed a task (C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\Puzzer\Anwendungsdaten\EPSON\ESCNDV\ES0032\FULL.bmp)."
Still those messages come... spooky! :twisted:
Is there any obvious mistake in my procedure or, better still, a solution?