I keep getting that exception in my program. How do I know which process locked it, either by program code or by doing something with windows?
System.IO.IOException : The process cannot access the file 'file.ext' because it is being used by another process.
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I ran into this quite often stated problem but even after looking up nearly every scource I didn’t get an aswer. Problem is as follows:
I wrote a little updater tool that connects to a server to check for new versions of an application and then copies the new version to the clientmashine. So the pattern is as follows:
Client installs t...
I need to check if I can write a file to a directory that user point to with Python.
Is there an way to check it in advance? I may be using try .. catch for this purpose, but I expect something better in the sense that I can check in advance.
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I'm uninstalling a service like this:
using (AssemblyInstaller installer = new AssemblyInstaller(serviceFileName, new String[] { }))
{
installer.UseNewContext = true;
installer.Uninstall(null);
}
which works fine, but then I try to do a Directory.Delete, and it throws an exception saying that access to the service's executable...