I guess you will have to try the process explorer from www.sysinternals.com
In that you can search for handle of the file, and corresponding process which is holding that handle. Try not to give full name of pdf, just give initial few letters.
I have been to able to kill even the most critical services of windows with that, till now it has never disappointed.
Also have you checked the permission on that file.
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Kamlesh
On 1/6/06, Ellis, Debbie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I had already tried that and received the same error message as I did in
Explorer
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Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2006 3:28 PM
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Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Windows 2003 Server
I have had this in Explorer and I have just fired up CMD and deleted them
that way - with no issue. I know it sounds simplistic but it worked.
Mark
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Rich Milburn
Sent: 05 January 2006 20:09
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Windows 2003 Server
I have seen this behavior too, but never got to the bottom of it. I
ended up being pretty certain that antivirus software was locking it
though. I have also seen the OS itself lock files, when it's trying to
show a preview or for other unknown reasons. Sometimes opening a
command prompt window to the file's parent folder, and then killing
explorer with task manager, enabled me to delete it.
Good luck
Rich
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-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Ellis, Debbie
Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2006 1:14 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Windows 2003 Server
I tried all and to no avail. The process could not be found. They are
all
pdf files and I can make a copy of them and am able to delete them
without
problems. Looks like I will have to reboot
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Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2006 11:44 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Windows 2003 Server
Shoot over to sysinternals and look for their handle tool that will show
you
what processes have handles open to files.
You may not have a choice but to reboot if you can't find what is
holding
the files.
-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Ellis, Debbie
Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2006 11:22 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Windows 2003 Server
Thanks for the info, but it did not work The pdf files did not show up
as
being in use.
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Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2006 10:22 AM
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Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Windows 2003 Server
You can try this.
On the file server run the command
NET FILE
Look for the files in question. Write down the ID
Then when you have the IDs
NET FILE <ID> /CLOSE
DEL FILE
Obviously replace <ID> with the ID from the NET FILE enumeration.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ] On Behalf Of Ellis, Debbie
Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2006 10:03 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [ActiveDir] Windows 2003 Server
There are a few pdf files that I can not delete on my file and print
server.
I have domain admin permissions and the file is not read only. It gives
me
the error messages that the file is in use. I don't want to reboot the
server. Has anyone else had this problem and what was the solution?
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