ejecting a disk after using "the files" funtion

[Jim Ault]

On 1/7/07 9:09 PM, "Rich Lague" <laguer at ucs.orst.edu> wrote:
> In the last edition of the Runtime Revolution Newsletter there was an
> article on ³Listing and Sorting Files in Revolution². The article
> included a demonstration stack ³File Lister.rev². I took that stack
> and wrote a snippet of code to save the file lists it creates. I have
> been trying to use it to catalog my back-up CDs. It works great for
> creating the file lists, but I have a problem: When I try to eject
> the CD I just cataloged so I can go to the next CD, I get this
> message, ³The disk (here it puts the name of the disk,) is in use and
> could not be ejected.²
> 
> I find that if I then use the function ³the files² on a different
> disk it allows me to eject the disk I just cataloged. How can I get
> the function ³the files² to let go of me CD so I can eject it and go
> on to the next CD?

Well, it looks like you are doing it.  You might try to just add a step that
gets the files of your desktop folder (or other) and just not use them.
Kind of like a way of releasing the files of the ejectable volume.

Hope this helps.

Jim Ault
Las Vegas