VS 2008 - Remove The Error "File Is Being Used By Another Process"?
Apr 16, 2012
I am trying to delete a file (malicious file) that places itself in the system32 directory. When i try to delete that file it shows cannot access file that is being used by another process. I found out that the process that uses the file is winlogon.exe . How can i remove this handle from the winlogon.exe process. I want to remove this from the winlogon.exe process. Can anybody suggest any ideas for this.
I am trying to delete a file (malicious file) that places itself in the system32 directory. When i try to delete that file it shows cannot access file that is being used by another process. I found out that the process that uses the file is winlogon.exe . How can i remove this handle from the winlogon.exe process. I want to remove this from the winlogon.exe process.
I've got an import program that reads csv files and imports the data to a sql server database. After the import I call a send email procedure which takes some arguments including the two files and adds them as attachments to a mail message, then sends the email:
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"
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.
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'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")
I am having an issue where I try to delete a file and get the error message that it is already in use. I can not seem to figure out what is currently using the file. Maybe someone here has an idea.
I'm making a program that gets the hash of anything that is downloaded from the internet. I used a filesystemwatcher to watch the "C:Users" & Environment.UserName & AppDataLocalMicrosoftWindowsTemporary Internet FilesLowContent.IE5" folder. Whenever a file is created/downloaded, it gets the hash, but... when it gets to the get hash steps, it throws the following exception:Access to the path 'C:UsersMatt tevensonAppDataLocalMicrosoftWindowsTemporary Internet FilesLowContent.IE5YDQ4IWIF' is denied.E.g.If I try to download the CCleaner.exe from the Piriform website (file for example) it'll detect it, but when it trys to find the hash of it, it says:
I have an App that saves one line of data to a textfile like this[code]... ' If I try to overwrite that file or delete it I get the error "The process cannot access the file 'c:windowsDScatalog.ini' because it is being used by another process."
I'm trying to delete a file, which prompts the error: "can not delete File in use by another process". I've been researching this for the last couple of days, and have tried every possible suggestion, I've come across, but still keep getting the error. I'm hoping someone might have a suggestion on what I need to change or rearrange in my code to get around this.
The program loads a group of files into a listbox, user selects which files to process, Each file is sent through the sub (process files) to be renamed, and then processed through external programs then removed from the listbox. Each file in the list HAS to be renamed the same in order for the external program to process it. This is where I'm getting the error message, as I need to delete the previous file before renaming the new one. Parts of my code may seem redundant, but its where I was trying every possible scenario of closing the process and or stream that's leaving the file open. [Code]
I'm writing a little program where I select a picture through an open file dialogue. When I selected a picture I want it to overwrite the current picture and display the new image. Now I don't have any problems with picking an image with a different extension. So when I currently have a .png I can select a .jpg but when I choose an image with the same extension as the current image I get an error: The process cannot access the file 'C:Users....woontypeimageschalet_foto.jpg' because it is being used by another process.
If ofd.ShowDialog() = Windows.Forms.DialogResult.OK Then Dim sFilename As String = cboWoningtypesWoningtype.SelectedItem.ToString & "_foto" & System.IO.Path.GetExtension(ofd.FileName) System.IO.File.Copy(ofd.FileName, Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.ApplicationData) & "Camping
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")
I'm trying to remove the first and last lines from a text file. Obviously the last line will be at an undetermined position (i.e. line 50 or 5000). I couldn't figure how to remove the lines, so I wrote code that would rewrite every other line:
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
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")
I have a very weird problem. In the constructor of my class, I create a new directory if it doesn't exist. After that the method Debug is being called from another class. But then it gives a error that the file is being used.When the directory already exists, I don't get this error when calling the method Debug.
This the
Public Class Backup Private oWrite As System.IO.StreamWriter
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edit: It get the same error if the directory exists but the files don't. So I guess I am forgetting a important step during those if statements.
below is my procedure (the important parts).Simply, it creates a file with the client's ID number and today's date number if no file exists (and in this case, we are creating a new file).Then, it loops through all files in the folder (in this case there will only be the one we just created), and opens the files and imports the data (since we just created the file, it will be empty). In other scenarios, there could be 3 files out there in the folder with 10 records each. This procedure would open these files and import their data.The problem I am running into is when there is NO files in the folder, so it creates one. Then when it gets down to reading the files, it finds the file just added, but throws an IOException: "The process cannot access the file "C:20200_8.bocx because it is being used by another process.It happens on the line USING SR AS NEW STREAMREADER(F.FULLNAME).So I'm sure the problem is that the new file that is being created is still open. How would I go about closing it?Right now the remedy is to let the program crash, then restart and it will load just fine.
vb.net If p_CurScanFile Is Nothing Then 'If there is no scan file, create one Dim NewFile As String
I have found that to get part of my program to do what i need it to do without causing proplems is to remove the file extention, do what needs to be done with the files and then put the file extention back.
Ive been trying to remove text from a txt file, the txtfile contains every item in the listbox, when a user selects a item then push's button3 it deletes it from the lsit and well Ive been trying to get it to delete from file to using
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.
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 ?
