On Apr 9, 3:25 am, santhosh vs <[email protected]> wrote: > The move trick doesnt work in vista :( > > > > On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 8:50 PM, santhosh vs <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thanks for the replay. What i want is why explorer locks it for such an > > infinite time, any idea? > > > On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 4:30 PM, AstroDrabb <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 2:29 AM, santhosh vs <[email protected]> > >> wrote: > >> > Hi all, > >> > Now iam developing an application in vista and iam experiencing one > >> strange > >> > issue. > >> > The application suddenly refused to remove a file from user's temp > >> folder. > >> > It was a video file and hence i thought some issue with my code and lost > >> my > >> > 2 days working on it. Finally i decided to execute an older version > >> which > >> > worked early, but found the same issue again. > >> > The file wont be deleted and it cant even delete through explorer (the > >> steps > >> > are funny , windows will ask do u want to delete the file , on yes the > >> file > >> > will disappear and appear agian! no message from windows that the file > >> is > >> > locked). On using 'unlocker' i found multiple locks from explorer. > >> > After some research in this issue i found that vista automatically apply > >> > indexing service. > >> > I decided to turn it off for the users private folders (that includes > >> temp) > >> > , i was not sure that this was making the lock. > >> > But with surprise the issue gone and i can now delete the file!! > >> > My question is any one experienced this problem before? > >> > Any idea to delete file in such cases when an indexing is applied to the > >> > user folder and why vista locks files/folders for indexing ...? > > >> This is nothing new. It has been going on for a long time with > >> explorer.exe the command shell. > >> I am still using XP for my dev box and it is stable except for the > >> locking crap from explorer.exe. > >> Unlocker is great for things like this. > > >> I think you came up with your own answer. The indexing service is > >> locking the file, though > >> I think the explorer shell does it just as much. If I open a dir of > >> images or videos (I have > >> indexing turned off) I still get locking issues from explorer.exe. Sigh. > > >> You can code your app to spawn a thread to wait X secs/mins for the > >> lock to be released > >> and to keep trying to delete it. Or you can use a Win32 API to delete > >> the files. > > >> A way to delete a locked/in use file with Win32 is with MoveFileEx(): > >>http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365240(VS.85).aspx<http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365240%28VS.85%29.aspx> > > >> Here are some other ways: > > >>http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1040/how-do-i-delete-a-file-which-... > > >> Jim > > > -- > > My Web Site > >http://everlovingyouth.googlepages.com > > My Technical Blog > >http://acutedeveloper.blogspot.com > > Skype :santhoshnta > > Orkut :everlovingyouth > > -- > My Web Sitehttp://everlovingyouth.googlepages.com > My Technical Bloghttp://acutedeveloper.blogspot.com > Skype :santhoshnta > Orkut :everlovingyouth
As AstroDrabb pointed out, there is a tool called Unlocker which works great for unlocking files that end up in this state in explorere. (I have used Unlocker as well, and also vouch for it.) Find it here: http://www.filehippo.com/download_unlocker/
