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Wed, 24 September 2003 08:28

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: yohai.attunity.co.il

Hi.
I'm trying to delete a file but it seems to be "locked" somehow by some
resource. I get a messgage saying i can't delete the file because "it is
being used by another person or program". Is there's a way to check which
program is using this file? Is there a way to force the deletion?

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Re: Force deletion [message #135537 is a reply to message #134920]

Wed, 24 September 2003 16:40

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: John_Arthorne.oti.com_

That's a limitation of your operating system. Some operating systems
allow you to delete a file that is being read by another process, and
others (ie, Windows) do not.
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Yohai Danon wrote:
> Hi.
> I'm trying to delete a file but it seems to be "locked" somehow by some
> resource. I get a messgage saying i can't delete the file because "it is
> being used by another person or program". Is there's a way to check which
> program is using this file? Is there a way to force the deletion?

Re: Force deletion [message #135651 is a reply to message #134920]

Wed, 24 September 2003 21:20

Eclipse User

> Is there's a way to check which program is using this file?

You have to play Sherlock Holmes. Check the type of the file. Check your
open applications.

A special case is when you have a DOS box that has its current working
directory in one of the subdirectories of one of your projects.
For instance, if your DOS box sits in MYPROJECT/bin and you do
a rebuild-project on MYPROJECT, the builder may not be able
to remove the contents of the bin directory.

Chris

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