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  • #1

    "... being used by another person or program."

    This is my eternal bane.

    Oftentimes, the ONLY processes running are explorer and the system services!

    Does anyone know of a program that can show the active file locks on a particular file or directory?

    Better yet, that can force the OS to release said locks?

    - Gurm
    The Internet - where men are men, women are men, and teenage girls are FBI agents!

    I'm the least you could do
    If only life were as easy as you
    I'm the least you could do, oh yeah
    If only life were as easy as you
    I would still get screwed
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  • #2
    404 - Content Not Found
    http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/procexp.shtml


    Ever wondered which program has a particular file or directory open?
    no matrox, no matroxusers.

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    • #3
      THANK YOU!

      THAT, is a beautiful program. EXACTLY what I needed.

      Gotta love SysInternals.

      - Gurm
      The Internet - where men are men, women are men, and teenage girls are FBI agents!

      I'm the least you could do
      If only life were as easy as you
      I'm the least you could do, oh yeah
      If only life were as easy as you
      I would still get screwed

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      • #4
        Holy crap, someone actually found a solution to this! Props to thop!
        Titanium is the new bling!
        (you heard from me first!)

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        • #5
          Now what we REALLY need is a nice right-click menu option:

          "Free all handles to this file..."

          - Gurm
          The Internet - where men are men, women are men, and teenage girls are FBI agents!

          I'm the least you could do
          If only life were as easy as you
          I'm the least you could do, oh yeah
          If only life were as easy as you
          I would still get screwed

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          • #6
            Thanks Thop.

            "... being used by another person or program." makes me wanna rip somebody's balls off too!
            How can you possibly take anything seriously?
            Who cares?

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            • #7
              Having fun with Windows Gurm?
              -Slougi

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              • #8
                Feh. At least in Windows we know it's an open file handle.

                In Linux, you get this:

                > rm file1
                > _

                Hmm... seemed to work, yeah?

                > ls
                > file1 file2 file3
                > _

                Guess not. Let's try again.

                > rm file1
                > ls
                > file1 file2 file3
                > _

                Hmm...

                - Gurm
                The Internet - where men are men, women are men, and teenage girls are FBI agents!

                I'm the least you could do
                If only life were as easy as you
                I'm the least you could do, oh yeah
                If only life were as easy as you
                I would still get screwed

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by Gurm
                  Feh. At least in Windows we know it's an open file handle.

                  In Linux, you get this:

                  > rm file1
                  > _

                  Hmm... seemed to work, yeah?

                  > ls
                  > file1 file2 file3
                  > _

                  Guess not. Let's try again.

                  > rm file1
                  > ls
                  > file1 file2 file3
                  > _

                  Hmm...

                  - Gurm
                  I've never seen that, unless 'rm' was aliased to run silently.
                  How can I reproduce this mythical problem?
                  Gigabyte P35-DS3L with a Q6600, 2GB Kingston HyperX (after *3* bad pairs of Crucial Ballistix 1066), Galaxy 8800GT 512MB, SB X-Fi, some drives, and a Dell 2005fpw. Running WinXP.

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                  • #10
                    You could take a look at WhoLockMe, a tool which shows the offending processes and allows you to kill them.

                    WhoLockMe Explorer Extension v2.0 beta (NT-Win2K-XP) download page
                    http://www.dr-hoiby.com/WhoLockMe/
                    List all the process locking a file.
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                    • #11
                      linux doesn't lock you out from deleting.
                      no matrox, no matroxusers.

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                      • #12
                        if this concerns .avi files, check out the following link:

                        Solved: Can't Delete Files | Experts Exchange
                        http://www.experts-exchange.com/CXO/Operating_Systems/WinXP/Q_20585496.html
                        Find answers to Can't Delete Files from the expert community at Experts Exchange

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by Zao
                          You could take a look at WhoLockMe, a tool which shows the offending processes and allows you to kill them.

                          http://www.dr-hoiby.com/WhoLockMe/
                          That one was nifty, thx for the link
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                          • #14
                            Gurm.

                            Thats Linux being user friendly. It doesn't want to bother the upset the user so it won't tell the user that it can't do anything with the file. End result the user thinks he/she has deleted the file or whatever.
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                            • #15
                              Thanks to Thop & Zao - If I had had that 2 days ago...

                              Cheers

                              T.
                              FT.

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