[COR-21] Extracting Externals Problems on Shared Drives

• Type: Bug
• Status: Open
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Fix Version/s: 0.5
• Component/s: Build
• Labels: Windows download scripts sharedstorage
• Environment: Microsoft Windows connection to shared drives
• Assignee: Dennis E. Hamilton
• Reporter: Dennis E. Hamilton
• Created: 10/Jan/15 00:12
• Updated: 18/Jan/15 09:32

Description

Peter reported failures of the extract_downloads script when operating on a share from within a Windows 7 VMware Guest.

A similar problem has been replicated with a Windows 10 Guest on Hyper-V.

It smells like some sort of race condition.

Some use on shared drives work, others fail.