I don’t fucking know why I can’t eject USB hard drives. I installed the SysInternals apps, and best they can tell me is that Dropbox is fucking with the drives. I explicitly told Dropbox to not fuck with USB drives. I don’t know who’s lying, I just want whoever is fucking with the drives to stop fucking with the drives, OK??? OK.
It’s even more fun when you’re trying to do something with a file on a network share. There have been so many times where a user goes “it’s telling me i can’t save this because Suzie is using it”, i close Suzie’s abandoned session, and the file is still magically in use by Suzie. Why? Because the dialogue is broken and the file is actually open on John’s machine. I fucking hate windows.
Waiting in windows explorer in a shared directory for write access to a document, with “notify” set. It says filename.doc is available, double click it. “Sorry psud, this file is being used by psud. Open read only or notify when this file is free?”
Because of course explorer opens the file read/write to show the preview
My favorite is “Location Not Found”. It’s amazing that both Mac and Linux seem to do a better job on SMB than Windows.