The Process Cannot Access The File 'FILENAME' Because It Is Being Used By Another Process - Error
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.
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]
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
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) ----------------------------------------- Dim FILE_NAME As String = "D:VB projectsCategory_Characteristics.txt"
I encountered the error:The process cannot access the file <full file path> because it is being used by another process.during System.IO.File.Delete(filename)I have opened the file using:pctPhoto.Image = Image.FromFile(filename)before I delete the file.
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")
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
I get the common error: " 'File Name' is currently being used by another process..."
My problem is that I have two forms. If the file doesn't exist in the one then it creates the file and opens up the other form, if the file exists it doesn't do anything, however, in the other form that it opens up I have it "attempting" to write text via StreamWriter. But my problem occurs when the StreamWriter tries to open the file for writing, that is when the program tells me that the file is currently being used by the other process.
In my first form I close the form via Form.Close and all I am using to create the file is System.IO.File.Create. Now I know that the System.IO.File.Create is causing the error because I have this process checking the very first thing on the program load. I am trying to find a work around the System.IO.File.Create but no luck here... I am trying to create a .txt ... lets say test.txt .
I am trying to create an app that will perform actions on specific times (much like the Windows Task Scheduler). I am currently using Process.Start() to lunch the file (or exe) required by the task. I am initiating a process by calling a file (an .mp3) and the process starts WMP (since it is the default application), so far so good. Now I wan't to kill that process. I know that it is normal behavior for the Process.Start(string, string) to return nothing (null in C#) in this case. So I am asking how can i close WMP when I called it through Process.Start(string, string)??
I have some coding which edits my text file and saves two versions, the first version removes all multiple space with one space and saves it as a text file and the second replaces the spaces with a comma and saves it as a csv file. The problem I have is however later on when I run other code using the saved text and csv files, it looks like the processes are in use. I get the following error:
The process cannot access the file 'Path' because it is being used by another process.My actual coding:
Private OpenFileName As String = IO.Path.Combine(Application.StartupPath, "TextFile1.txt") Private SaveFileName As String = IO.Path.Combine(Application.StartupPath, "TextFile2.txt") Private SaveFileName2 As String = IO.Path.Combine(Application.StartupPath, "TextFile3.csv")
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.
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."
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 ?
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
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......
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.
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
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
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"
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.
I am working on a small VB application that listens for commands sent from an Android app.
One of the functions is to extract an archive. I am familiar with how to listen for the unrar process to finish, so I can display a progressdialog on the phone while the extraction is happening, and clear it as soon as it's done.
BUT ... if there is an error/alert from WinRAR, WaitForExit() never gets called because WinRAR is still sitting there open until I click "OK" on the MsgBox.
For Example ... if you try to extract a file that is not actually an archive... an alert will pop up saying "No Archives Found", and basically everything is halted on the VB app and the Android app, and the Android app just sits on a progressdialog saying "extracting..." until you manually hit "OK" on the computer.
As you can imagine, this is a problem if the whole point of your app is to NOT have to go over to the computer.
So... I am wondering if there is something similar to WaitForExit() that will wait for an error and allow me to close out the alert and let the process end.
Here's my Sub for the UnRar command:
Private Sub UnRar(ByVal WorkingDirectory As String, ByVal filepath As String) Dim objRegKey As RegistryKey objRegKey = Registry.ClassesRoot.OpenSubKey("WinRARShellOpenCommand")
Whats happening is I run the code below and get the following error "The system cannot find the file specified". I've read that with UseShellExecute set to false that you can't use WorkingDirectory.
Dim Password As String = "password" Dim SecureStringPassword As New System.Security.SecureString For Each c As Char In Password
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).
I am getting the below error when I click a row in the grid. But this error is raised only in exe, which is installed in client machine, but when I check the same from source code in my machine, i am not getting this error. I am able to locate the record.
Cannot start a process because a filename has not been provided.
Private Sub Backup_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles cmdBackup.Click Process.Start(adbFind.adbLocation.Text, "pull /data/local/bootanimation.zip C:Backup.zip") End Sub
It was working fine now this is just started to appear, i have went back as far as i can where i only have that line of code and it still appears.
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]...
