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From: W. eWatson on 22 Feb 2010 10:22
Last night I copied a program from folder A to folder B. It inspects the
contents of files in a folder. When I ran it in B, it gave the results
for A! Out of frustration I changed the name in A, and fired up the
program in B. Win7 went into search mode for the file. I looked at
properties for the B program, and it was clearly pointing to folder A.

Anyone have this happen to them?

Another anomaly. I have the files track.py and trackstudy.py in the same
folder along with 100 or so other py and txt data files. When I did a
search from the folder window in the upper right corner, search only
found one of the two. I called HP tech support about it, and they could
see it for themselves via remote control. They had no idea, but agreed
to contact MS. In this case, I noted that this search box has some sort
of filter associated with it. Possibly, in my early stages of learning
to navigate in Win7, I accidentally set the filter.

Comments?
From: Krister Svanlund on 22 Feb 2010 10:43
On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 4:22 PM, W. eWatson <wolftracks(a)invalid.com> wrote:
> Last night I copied a program from folder A to folder B. It inspects the
> contents of files in a folder. When I ran it in B, it gave the results for
> A! Out of frustration I changed the name in A, and fired up the program in
> B. Win7 went into search mode for the file. I looked at properties for the B
> program, and it was clearly pointing to folder A.
>
> Anyone have this happen to them?
>
> Another anomaly. I have the files track.py and trackstudy.py in the same
> folder along with 100 or so other py and txt data files. When I did a search
> from the folder window in the upper right corner, search only found one of
> the two. I called HP tech support about it, and they could see it for
> themselves via remote control. They had no idea, but agreed to  contact MS.
> In this case, I noted that this search box has some sort of filter
> associated with it. Possibly, in my early stages of learning to navigate in
> Win7, I accidentally set the filter.
>
> Comments?

I can't really see the python related problem here...
From: MRAB on 22 Feb 2010 11:01
W. eWatson wrote:
> Last night I copied a program from folder A to folder B. It inspects the
> contents of files in a folder. When I ran it in B, it gave the results
> for A! Out of frustration I changed the name in A, and fired up the
> program in B. Win7 went into search mode for the file. I looked at
> properties for the B program, and it was clearly pointing to folder A.
>
Sounds like you didn't copy it but made a shortcut to it instead.

> Anyone have this happen to them?
>
> Another anomaly. I have the files track.py and trackstudy.py in the same
> folder along with 100 or so other py and txt data files. When I did a
> search from the folder window in the upper right corner, search only
> found one of the two. I called HP tech support about it, and they could
> see it for themselves via remote control. They had no idea, but agreed
> to contact MS. In this case, I noted that this search box has some sort
> of filter associated with it. Possibly, in my early stages of learning
> to navigate in Win7, I accidentally set the filter.
>
> Comments?

Not Python-related.
From: Grant Edwards on 22 Feb 2010 11:29
On 2010-02-22, W. eWatson <wolftracks(a)invalid.com> wrote:

> Last night I copied a program from folder A to folder B.

[tail of various windows breakages elided]

> Comments?

Switch to Linux?

Or at least install Cygwin?

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From: W. eWatson on 22 Feb 2010 13:30
On 2/22/2010 8:29 AM, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2010-02-22, W. eWatson<wolftracks(a)invalid.com> wrote:
>
>> Last night I copied a program from folder A to folder B.
>
> [tail of various windows breakages elided]
>
>> Comments?
>
> Switch to Linux?
>
> Or at least install Cygwin?
>
Yes, definitely not related, but maybe some W7 user has a similar
experience here. It seems a natural place to look, since it should be
reasonably common.

I have Cygwin.
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