[porcupene]

Ok...

First ... if I'm annoying anyone with my silly error I'll stop

If not, here goes:

I use AVG and I disabled it temporarily, nothing changed.

It turns out it's not only FLAC but it happens also with mp3 and ogg (I suspect all the other encoders too). I know it's pointless to convert mp3 to mp3 but I just wanted to check the functionality.

So if I choose to save the files in the same folder and "Overwrite existing files" and do mp3 to mp3 or ogg to ogg conversion this happens:

LameXP v4.09 (Build #1524), compiled on 2014-01-26 at 18:20:04

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Target output file already exists, going to delete existing file:
M:\BMF\1.mp3

C:/Users/balaban/AppData/Local/Temp/af3619121cd06397/lxp_lame.exe --nohist -q 0 -V 0 -m s M:\BMF\1.mp3 M:\BMF\1.mp3

Input file and Output file are the same. Abort.

Exited with code: 0xFFFFFFFF

or for ogg:

LameXP v4.09 (Build #1524), compiled on 2014-01-26 at 18:20:04

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Target output file already exists, going to delete existing file:
M:\BMF\2.ogg

C:/Users/balaban/AppData/Local/Temp/af3619121cd06397/lxp_oggdec.exe -w C:\Users\balaban\AppData\Local\Temp\af3619121cd06397\fc2d59288aef2cda.wav M:\BMF\2.ogg

OggDec v1.9.7 (libVorbis 1.3.2), Compiled on: Dec 27 2010
Input M:\BMF\2.ogg does not appear to be an Ogg bitstream.
********** Done decoding all input files. **********

Exited with code: 0x0000

And here is the ok output once I choose to save to a different folder:

LameXP v4.09 (Build #1524), compiled on 2014-01-26 at 18:20:04

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C:/Users/balaban/AppData/Local/Temp/af3619121cd06397/lxp_lame.exe --nohist -q 0 -V 0 -m s M:\BMF\1.mp3 M:\BMF\BMA\1.mp3

LAME 3.99.5 32bits (http://lame.sf.net)
CPU features: MMX (ASM used), SSE (ASM used), SSE2
polyphase lowpass filter disabled
Encoding M:\BMF\1.mp3 to M:\BMF\BMA\1.mp3
Encoding as 44.1 kHz stereo MPEG-1 Layer III VBR(q=0)
Frame | CPU time/estim | REAL time/estim | play/CPU | ETA
Writing LAME Tag...done
ReplayGain: -4.3dB

Exited with code: 0x0000

and for ogg:

LameXP v4.09 (Build #1524), compiled on 2014-01-26 at 18:20:04

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C:/Users/balaban/AppData/Local/Temp/af3619121cd06397/lxp_oggdec.exe -w C:\Users\balaban\AppData\Local\Temp\af3619121cd06397\1190288fb69d1bc3.wav M:\BMF\2.ogg

OggDec v1.9.7 (libVorbis 1.3.2), Compiled on: Dec 27 2010
Encoder Version: 0
Serial Number: 18706
Bitstream is 2 channel, 44100Hz
Scale = 1.0000
Decoded length: 14004984 samples = 5:17 mins.
Encoded by: AO; aoTuV [20110424] (based on Xiph.Org's libVorbis)
Decoding: M:\BMF\2.ogg
********** Done decoding all input files. **********

Exited with code: 0x0000

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C:/Users/balaban/AppData/Local/Temp/af3619121cd06397/lxp_oggenc2.exe -q 9 -o M:\BMF\BMA\2.ogg C:\Users\balaban\AppData\Local\Temp\af3619121cd06397\1190288fb69d1bc3.wav

Opening with wav module: WAV file reader
Encoding "C:\Users\balaban\AppData\Local\Temp\af3619121cd06397\1190288fb69d1bc3.wav" to
"M:\BMF\BMA\2.ogg"
at quality 9.00
Done encoding file "M:\BMF\BMA\2.ogg"
File length: 5m 17.0s
Elapsed time: 0m 08.0s
Rate: 39.6967
Average bitrate: 329.9 kb/s

Exited with code: 0x0000

I did read the warning the program gives if I choose "Overwrite existing files" but is says I will loose the original file not both

Far be it from me to criticize this great program which I have used a long time but could it not just first save the wav file to a temporary folder and then and only then check if the target file already exists so it can safely be deleted?