Xp Crash, WinZip 9.0 sr1 & Synch files

[mikek]

Have a problem using Winzip 9.0 with offline synchronized files. Sometimes, more often than not now, WinZip seems to crash when operating on archives amonsgt my off line synched files. The crash is sufficientle severe that I can't stop the winzip process, or even shut down the PC. It needs a forced power off...

I'm wondering if there are any practical limits to either size of offline file store or to size of offline archives....

Anybody got any views or experience??

[mikek]

No one seems to want to answer my posts.... but I think I might have solved this one:

Was trying to do some off-line archiving over the weekend, adding files to some zipped archives that are themselves synched between my laptop and a server. However, winzip kept crashing - and so badly that I couldn't kill the winzip process or log off or shutdown - so had to do a forced power off…. Pretty bad for Xp??

Anyhow, after a couple of sessions of this, on reboot, laptop not connected to network, it spent about 25 mins of frenzied disc thrashing with CPU loadings around 80% with some periods at 100%. After this I now no longer loose connectivity to the server.

So although it was probably fairly obvious that this problem was not related to hardware or network config (given it only affected one server rather than all that I've synched), it now looks to me as though the cache database on my PC or some other part of the cache management was corrupted and what ever I did on Sunday forced Xp to sort itself out.

Thinking about it I probably should have tried rebuilding the caches. I foolishly assumed it was an issue related to a single server since my other synchs were unaffected.