Vegas Movie Studio HD Platinum 10 leaves files ope

keith20mm wrote on 9/19/2012, 8:42 PM
Hi Sony,

I noticed that the .vf file is somehow left open by Vegas Pro, AFTER THE PROGRAM CLOSES.

How is this? Do you leave a process running with the file handle open?

Why doesn't Vegas Movie Studio HD Platinum 10 clean up its mess after it closes?

So, here I am, 2.6 miles away from another computer which has shared out the directory containing the Sony project. I attempt to copy the entire directory from the far end pc to my pc, but I get a sharing violation error on the .vf file.

How about you fix it?

Thanks for pointing out mis-posted on Vegas Pro forum.

TIA

Comments

musicvid10 wrote on 9/19/2012, 9:52 PM
Vegas process remains open for a time, I believe to speed opening the project again if you decide to do so right away. You can close the process in Task Manager if it seems a problem to you.
Chienworks wrote on 9/20/2012, 8:00 AM
Of course, if he's 2.6 miles away it's a bit difficult to access the task manager.

As long as you have network access to the remote computer i strongly suggest installing something like RealVNC on both computers. This lets you access the Windows desktop on the remote computer and operate it as if you were sitting there at the keyboard. It's saved my butt many times, especially when i get to the office and realize that the presentation i worked on so hard until 4am is still sitting open and unsaved on my home computer. Log in with VNC, save it, close it, and then send it to my work account.
keith20mm wrote on 9/20/2012, 11:04 PM
No Sony products appear in the Task Manager, hence I wouldn't know what process to stop.

Look, it is a product bug, plain and simple.

When an application exits, all file handles should be released (closed)... at least that's been the common stance for the last, oh, 40 years. For a program to act any other way means that the program is a resource leak.

So, again, Sony, when Vegas exits, close and free all file handles, release all allocated objects, free all memory.

I had to shutdown the far end PC and then restart it for the file handle to be released.

This is plainly a program flaw, defect.

The .vf file was still held by some process hours after the program had been exited.

The correction required a round trip to the far end site to stop Windows, restart Windows, and, along the way, copy the project files onto a network file device offline to the far end PC.

As to Winvn, maybe, but that's yet another band-aid for what should not have happened anyway.
musicvid10 wrote on 9/20/2012, 11:53 PM
A file handle can remain open without the associated process?
Interesting theory, but I haven't heard of this before.
Can you provide some documentation?
Chienworks wrote on 9/21/2012, 5:29 AM
Personally i've never seen Vegas or any SCS software hold files open after it exits. However, i have seen Windows Explorer hold files and directories open for hours while it's scanning through the file for ... goodness knows what. Even when i close Explorer Windows still seems to be interested in reading the file for a long time. This is a serious bug that Microsoft needs to fix.

Tell you what .. you may think RealVNC is a band-aid, but at least it's one *YOU* can apply and get past your problem. Sounds like a good band-aid to me.