AVI Extension Problem

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I am not a newbie to DVD ripping and encoding to most formats, i have been doing it for about 2 years now. But i have a problem and i have no idea what could have caused it.

Last night i ripped a DVD using Gordian Knot, the file it gave me was an AVI which was fine. But now I have tried to change the extension to ".divx" but it wont let me. It says "It is being used by another person or program".

I can play the file and I can make copies of it but when i have done that I cannot delete it, or edit the file name in any way. It only happens with ".avi" extensions though. I changed another film that i have from ".divx" to ".avi" but now i cannot change it back.

I have made sure that i am an administrator on the computer and that the file is not read only, and i have ended all the programs that could possible affect it in task manager but there is nothing that does. There are no gain tricklers or media players running. I have restarted the computer a couple of times.

(I am running WinXP Pro, and i am on a Local Area Network)

Can someone give me some help because i have no idea what else to do?

[manono]

Hi and welcome to the forums-

Read This (especially IgniTion's last post):

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=17352&highlight=delete+avi+WinXP

And This:

http://www.dvdrhelp.com/forum/userguides/100406.php

I think your problem is the same as theirs. Good Luck.

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Thankyou so much, i have fixed it now.

I searched for a solution a couple of diferent times and could not find anything so i posted a new thread.

(This forum is SO good)