Folder-monitoring Windows Service Gets "process Cannot Access The File Because It Is Being Used By Another Process"
May 26, 2009
I have created a Windows service in VS 2005 that monitors a folder for XML files, reads some data elements from the XML using XmlDocument, then copies the files to another location. I find that when I drop 2 or more XML files into the folder simultaneously, it processes them with no problems, but when I drop the same files into the folder one at a time, I will get an error on the second file: "The process cannot access the file <my file> because it is being used by another process." If I stop my service, restart it, and drop the second file into the folder again, it works the second time. I am confident that no other program is accessing this file at the same time as my service. My impression is that the processing of file # 1 is somehow not releasing all of the resources, leading to the processing of file # 2 mistakenly thinking that it can't access that second file.
Dim FileWatcher As New FileSystemWatcher()
It points the watcher to my folder, sets up an event handler, then enables the watching:
FileWatcher.Path = InputFolderPath
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Jun 4, 2009
I have written a windows service that is meant to launch a notepad when a specific action happens. The problem i have is that even though the service launches notepad, the actual notepad it self is NOT visible. I know that it has been launced because i can see the process in the task manager. By the way the process is listed as a SYSTEM process rather than a process under my user name (i believe that is because my process is a "LocalSystem" one).
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Sep 1, 2009
I am getting an error with this code.
The process cannot access the file 'C:UsersdavidDesktopTest Folderdavid 2.xml' because it is being used by another process.
how do i end the prosess after I create the file? Or am I creating it in the wrong manner.The underlined line is where the error ocures.
Public Sub AddDTData(ByVal value1 As String, ByVal value2 As String, ByVal filename As String)
dtUser.Rows.Add(value1, value2, Now.Date)
If My.Computer.FileSystem.FileExists(filename) Then
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Sep 13, 2011
I try to open a text file and write in some text, when i run the program it says the following error:The process cannot access the file 'D:VB projectsCategory_Characteristics.txt' because it is being used by another process.
THe code is as follows and the error hits in line :
Dim objWriter As New System.IO.StreamWriter(FILE_NAME)
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Dim FILE_NAME As String = "D:VB projectsCategory_Characteristics.txt"
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Aug 31, 2009
How can i access a file through FileStream which is being used by a window service. Actually i am trying to access a file which is also being used by our window service. I need to read data from this file. I am using below code but also getting following error:
Code:
Dim fs1 As IO.FileStream = New IO.FileStream(psPath, IO.FileMode.Open, IO.FileAccess.Read, IO.FileShare.Read)
Dim sr As IO.StreamReader = New IO.StreamReader(fs1)
sData = sr.ReadToEnd
Error: The process cannot access the file 'FILENAME' because it is being used by another process.
I tried changing FileShare.Read parameter to FileShare.None but it didn't work out. I also read below post which says that it is not possible but i think there is a way to read it like if you open a file through Firefox but still window service is accessing it.
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Oct 27, 2011
I am working with saving and deleting images. What i really want to do is check and see if an image exists in the destination folder and if it does automatically overwrite it. i couldnt figure that out so i figured i would look to see if the file was there if it is Delete it then write the new file..The issue is i keep getting this error.The process cannot access the file "FileName" because it is being used by another process. [code]
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Dec 4, 2011
The process cannot access the file 'C:UsersJoshuaDocumentsTest1.txt' because it is being used by another process.Now the Problem. When i step through my code, it will do as intended, e.g. clear all contents of test1.txt. when i run it at run time it throws this error. The reason for it throwing an error is the text file is reading string, int, string, and the txt file has a string including in the int part, so i'm making it so you can empty a corrupt file.
vb
Imports System.IO
Public Class Form1
Private norepeat As Boolean
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Sep 21, 2007
When I load my solution and compile it after first starting the IDE, everything works as expected. After changing source and recompiling, I get the following compile error:
Error 11 Unable to copy file "objDebugCAMDRS.Library.dll" to "binCAMDRS.Library.dll". The process cannot access the file 'binCAMDRS.Library.dll' because it is being used by another process. CAMDRS.Library.
After closing Visual Studio 2005 and reopening the solution I can compile again successfully. This is an old solution that has been fine for a long time. I just recently changed computers and reinstalled everything.I am running win XP Pro sp2, Visual Studio 2005 sp1.
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Feb 1, 2012
My program writes to a .txt file (and this is the ONLY program that writes to it) in a thread (with lowest priority), but every now and then it gets an error "The process cannot access the file because another process has locked a portion of the file" when it executes this code: swLog.WriteLine(sPacket).Other program reads from the file, not write to it, why do I get this error, and how can I get around it, or what shall I do when I get this error since I can't write to the file ?
Class
clsFile
Private swLogOrig As StreamWriter
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May 14, 2012
when i'm running the update it shows the error The process cannot access the file 'C:Documents and SettingsMackyMy DocumentsVisual Studio 2008ProjectsMarcelo 2.2.3MarceloinDebugStudentsMIC953867.jpg' because it is being used by another process.
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I can save new student information with picture.. but when it comes in updating the picture these codes didn't work......
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Sep 16, 2010
After I managed to add a picture in a database, I wanted to add two but it doesn't work.Here is my code:[code...]
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Mar 11, 2010
Imports HR.EZTwainLibrary
Imports System.Runtime.InteropServices
Public Class frmNewScan
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this problem occurs when i scan an images for the second time. i think the error is my filename(C:MyImage.jpeg). how can i have a different filename thru coding or how to delete the tempory filename of an image to make scan again.
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Oct 24, 2010
I am adding images to a FlowLayoutPanel control via the following code
Dim WithEvents Pedit As DevExpress.XtraEditors.PictureEdit
Private Sub LoadImagesCommon(ByVal fi As FileInfo)
Pedit = New DevExpress.XtraEditors.PictureEdit
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May 7, 2009
I am trying to write a Windows Script that will allow me to monitor the following: That 2 x seperate but specific processes within Component Services "Running Processes" list are currently running and have not reset within the past hour. If I already know the PID, then I can retrieve the CreationDate (I assume which I can use to check for restarts? or is this the actual process creation/installation date) for each specific process, however if a restart occurs the PID will change and my script needs to know what the new PID is without me telling it!
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Jan 19, 2012
I've been trying off and on for a week now to get this to work but no luck. I have completely stripped down my vb.net 2008 windows service to just create a vbs file and launch it using a process.I'm dying here. The vbs file creates and is valid. I can execute it manually, the windows service just won't run it!! I'm on a windows 7 machine and the process is compiled and installed as a 32 bit process. It is also installed as local system.
After the process tries to execute, I created a text file and it did so successfully. So, I know that the service isn't crashing out.[code]....
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Aug 2, 2011
I have developed a Windows Service in VB.Net (VS2010) which is running on Windows7. I am trying to get "MainWindowTitle" for processes thru their process object but it returns empty.
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Jul 25, 2011
I am working on a Windows Service project that is supposed to start automatically with Windows and it has a timer to check if a certain process is created (in this case "iexplorer") the service should terminate that process. In addition, the user should not be able to stop the windows service.
I was able to create the process and make start with Windows. I changed the property (CanStop) to False but that did not help because after a few tries the servise stops. I used a For-Next loop in the timer to check for the process to terminate but unfortunatly, it didn't work. The code I used is:
Dim theProcesses() As Process = System.Diagnostics.Process.GetProcessesByName("Iexplore")
For Each currentProcess As Process In theProcesses
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May 18, 2012
I'm printing pdf files via the below code in a service. In Windows 7 this works really well, In Windows Vista, nothing happens at all? What am I doing wrong?
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Nov 24, 2010
I have a Windows Service that needs to start other processes under a user context other than that used by the service. I've seen other posts related to this but have seen no resolutionI've tried many things and have been unsuccessful in starting the process from a Windows Service when a username, password is supplied. orking as it's a requirement of our system to do this and it worked fine until recently and only fails on Vista and Windows 7 (works on XP).
The following code is used to start the process.
Dim P As New Process
P.StartInfo.Domain = Domain
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Jan 12, 2010
this process problem only happen when i add the line below (red colored (line 12 and 19))the error pointed at the colored (blue (line 32)) at saving the image to the database
here's the code:
Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
OpenFileDialog1.Title = "Set Image File"
OpenFileDialog1.Filter = "JPEG Files|*.jpg"
OpenFileDialog1.DefaultExt = "bmp"
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Oct 24, 2010
I'm trying to write text to / read text from a file, but when it's trying to execute the My.Computer.FileSystem.WriteAllText code, it throws an exception: "The process cannot access to the file "<filename>" because it's being used by another process", and the "source" of the exception is "mscorlib"Note: this is a DLL file, which is being used by an application.
I tried to use:
If IO.File.Exists(My.Application.Info.DirectoryPath & "Sites_int.wblist") = True Then
Kill(My.Application.Info.DirectoryPath & "Sites_int.wblist")
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Jul 17, 2011
My.Computer.FileSystem.Rename(pathname,name) < < Throws the above exception I am trying to rename a small .jpg image, - previously (in this application program flow) accessed by the following:
btmp = New Bitmap(pathname) < < , and was followed by a btmp.Dispose well before the Rename called it. Plenty of time had gone by. But for some reason the "application process" is not releasing the pathname for me to rename or delete it.
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Sep 23, 2010
I am looking for a bit of inspiration here, a client has requested me to build a simple remote process monitoring application with capability for smtp notification, when monitored processes go down or come back on-line. Can anyone point me in the direction of some sample code to get me started. I have briefly looked at .net remoting as a potential development path, from my understanding of how this works, the remoting architecture would require both a client and remote server component, (though I am not a 100% sure on this one), however if this is the case, then it will not fit the bill, as one of the fundamental requirements is that no additional software can be deployed on the servers which are to be monitored
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Dec 18, 2009
How can we know folder is using some other program or thread? what if happen if two different threads are trying to deleting same folder recursively at the same time. how can we know folder is using or deleting some other thread before try to delete that?
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May 17, 2011
I am trying to work on a service where I need to export a report into a folder under the service project and email it to the user. The delete the report when complete. The issue I am having is I need to know how to access a folder under the project. I know you can use System.AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory to get into the bin where the excuting file is but I want to get to a folder is this possible? If not is there a way of creating the folder under the bin directory and accessing it. I can manually create a folder under the bin but didnt really want to do that.
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Aug 10, 2010
I have made a small program which loads a file into a listview when somebody presses the load button on the form. The user can also put information in the listview by filling in some textboxes and press on the add button.So now the weird thing is that if the user loads an empty file ( With no information in it ) and presses load on the form and after that tries to add information to the file you get a "The process cannot access the file '" because it is being used by another process" error.
The code for the load button is as followed: ( So here accountfile 2 is loaded )
Dim BinFormatter As New System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Binary.BinaryFormatter()
Dim FS As System.IO.FileStream
Try
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Jun 25, 2011
Here Is my code
Public Sub MoveAllFolders(ByVal fromPathInfo As DirectoryInfo, ByVal toPath As String)
Dim toPathInfo = New DirectoryInfo(toPath)
If (Not toPathInfo.Exists) Then
toPathInfo.Create()
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My goal is to move all folder inside a folder into a folder named Folders.so If I do it on desktop all the folders in desktop will go to "Folders"but I get an error "The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process."
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Aug 19, 2011
I frequently encounter Process cannot access a file because it is being used by another process error when trying to perform a file function (eg delete) that requires the Access Database file to be closed.[code]...
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Sep 9, 2010
I'm loading an image from a database which works fine, however if i close the image and then try to open it again i get the following error[code]...
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Oct 23, 2009
I have a problem and have tried several attempts to remedy, but have not figured out a "robust" fix. my problem is I randomly get the "process cannot access the file ??? because it is being used by another process".What I am doing is reading a text file about every 1/2 second. later in my app i try to write to the same text file.
Question: is there a way that i can read the text file without causing this error?
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