Search on D: and get E:

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David White

Why is that when I search a CD in my CD drive D: for "viewex" (an MFC sample
program) it finds it on E:, which is my Windows XP drive? Specifically:
E:\Documents and Settings\dwhite\Local Settings\Application
Data\Microsoft\CD Burning\Samples
A look in the "CD Burning" directory in an explorer shows that there is
nothing actually there, and if I try to copy something "found" there in the
search results it asks me to put in the CD if I've previously removed it.
Wouldn't it be simpler and make more sense for the search results to say
that it found the files in D:\Samples, since that is not only where I asked
it to search, but also where they actually are? How do I get it to do this?

Thanks.

David
 
Why is that when I search a CD in my CD drive D: for "viewex" (an MFC sample
program) it finds it on E:, which is my Windows XP drive? Specifically:
E:\Documents and Settings\dwhite\Local Settings\Application
Data\Microsoft\CD Burning\Samples
A look in the "CD Burning" directory in an explorer shows that there is
nothing actually there, and if I try to copy something "found" there in the
search results it asks me to put in the CD if I've previously removed it.
Wouldn't it be simpler and make more sense for the search results to say
that it found the files in D:\Samples, since that is not only where I asked
it to search, but also where they actually are? How do I get it to do this?

Thanks.

David
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Apparently a bug. Workaround described here:

Files are displayed in the staging folder when you search a CD-RW drive
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;325218
 
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