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Hi Phil, After some hiccups, I successfully installed the beta-3 Windows XP distribution on two machines. I thought that the experience below may be helpful to others on the Coda mailing list. I'm also including some feedback on vcodacon, since you'd asked for that. When I tried to install the new cygwin, the install hung about half-way into the process. This was repeatable. After some rather digging I figured out the following: if the machine already has an old cygwin installed (e.g you ran the previous version of Coda), the new install hangs. If you don't have an old cygwin around, the install works fine. That's why your new machine gave no trouble. The real problem is that there seem to be a bunch of files (e.g. the venus.cache directory tree plus the LOG and DATA files for RVM) that simply cannot be deleted even if you are a Windows Administrator. You get "Access denied". Nothing I do (including rebooting) seems to help. Finally, I just renamed C:\cygwin to C:\cygwin-DELETEME. That left about 80MB of garbage around, but the install of the new cygwin then worked like a charm. After that the Coda install works beautifully and it has been running stably. On the second machine, I saw that I already had a C:\cygwin-DELETEME. So now I have a C:\cygwin-DELETEME2, and roughly 150MB of disk garbage! I remembered that I ran into exactly this a year or so ago for the last version of Windows Coda. I haven't yet figured out how to get rid of these DELETEME trees. I thought Administrator in Windows was like root in Unix. Obviously not quite the same! Other than the above cygwin nuisance, the beta-3 Windows release works great. vcodacon is a start, but could be improved in a number of ways. Some suggestions: 1. The files appearing and then disappearing is annoying. I'd rather have a scrollbar that I can use to move back in history, and something that works roughly like codacon. 2. The reintegration light coming on is only slightly useful. Much more useful would be a light that indicates that I have a non-zero CML. Perhaps even two numbers like 15/784K to indicate 15 CML records and 784KB container file volume? I realize that one could have dirty state in multiple volumes. Not sure what the best way to handle this is. Just add records together and volume together? Or 3 numbers: <Nvols>/<totalrecs>/<totalbytes> 3. The H, G, R, D, C indicators don't do much for me. But percentage file fetched is helpful; absolute numbers in addition would be useful, so I know whether it is 50% of 1MB or 10MB. I haven't had a chance to test BigFile and symlink support yet. Soon.... Overall, it's great to have a much more robust Coda on Windows. I have come to really rely on it, and feel handicapped without it. Nice job! -- SatyaReceived on 2006-09-25 16:01:29