On Tue 03 Jan 2012, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> From: "Katz, Dan" <dpk...@arc.baincapital.com> >> CC: "help-emacs-windows@gnu.org" <help-emacs-windows@gnu.org> >> Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2012 18:20:10 +0000 >> >> >> (nil 1 "dpkatz" "Domain Users" (20227 15644) (20227 15645) (20227 >> >> 15644) 22914 "-rw-rw-rw-" nil (29184 1 . 38188) (57524 . 40871)) >> > >> > I see nothing extraordinary here. If you now type >> > >> > M-x delete-file RET c:/Users/dpkatz/tmp/ange-ftp4392cgy RET >> > >> > does Emacs succeed in deleting it, or do you get the same "permission >> > denied" error again? >> >> If I just call delete-file as you suggest, it succeeds and deletes the file. > > Which probably means that some process holds that file open when Emacs > originally tries to delete it. Maybe the ftp process?
Or an anti-virus scanner.
