procexp (Process Explorer) from sysinternals (http://www.sysinternals.com/ or http://live.sysinternals.com/procexp.exe) will let you browse open handles on files and see what process(es) have them open. I don't know how to do it programatically (like from CF), but you might find a command-line utility in the sysinternals package that you can run with CFEXECUTE if you dig a bit. There's all kinds of goodies in there.
cheers, barneyb On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 8:01 AM, Stefan Richter <ste...@flashcomguru.com> wrote: > > Thanks Barney, > I'm already catching it. I was wondering if there's a way to force delete it > somehow - any process that is still hanging onto it would likely be CF or the > webserver. On the other hand, how can I find out what's holding onto it? I > know how to do this on OSX... > > > Cheers > > Stefan > > > > On 7 Dec 2009, at 15:40, Barney Boisvert wrote: > >> >> If you just want to silently ignore, wrap with CFTRY..CFCATCH and >> nothing in the CFCATCH. Typically windows has this problem if another >> process has the file open for some reason (or just hasn't cleaned up >> it's handles). >> >> cheers, >> barneyb >> >> On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 7:37 AM, Stefan Richter <ste...@flashcomguru.com> >> wrote: >>> >>> Hi all, >>> what may be causing the following error and what - if anything - could I do >>> to prevent it? This is on a Windows server with CF8. >>> ColdFusion could not delete the file C:\Inetpub\...\folder\file.ppt for an >>> unknown reason. >>> >>> This happens when I run >>> <cfdirectory action="delete" directory="C:\Inetpub\...\folder" >>> recurse="yes"> >>> >>> Regards, >>> >>> Stefan >>> >>> > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:328909 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
