[Box Backup-dev] Re: [Box Backup-commit] Re: #24: Extraneous files in Windows clients?

[Chris Wilson]

Hi Pete,

> I just updated a client, that's been running great for a year on 564 (or 
> 538), with 1662.  I first stopped the service, removed the service, and 
> renamed or deleted all the .exe's and .dll's, before extracting your 
> .zip.  It just completed a 22 minute upload cycle without the 
> pcreposix.dll with no reported problems.  Is there a good specific test 
> I should run?

No, it wouldn't even start if the DLL was missing. Can you find it 
anywhere else on your system?

> Note that I had to rename bbackupd.exe and bbackupquery.exe because I 
> got "Access is denied" when I tried to delete them.  Eventually 
> bbackupd.exe deleted, but I'm still waiting for bbackupquery.exe to be 
> able to be deleted.  Weird. Also weird is the error message has the 
> filename as it was before I renamed it, not matching what I'm looking at 
> in Windows Explorer.

Are bbackupd/bbackupquery processes still running on your system? Could 
you kill them and try again to replace the binaries?

> I just noticed ticket 29 is essentially a duplicate of 24.  I'm an idiot 
> and/or I need to stop working on this stuff so late at night.  Feel free 
> to kill 29.

Thanks for the notification.

Cheers, Chris.
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