[Python-Dev] Coernic Desktop Search versus shutil.rmtree

[Aahz]

On Wed, Sep 01, 2004, Tim Peters wrote:
>
> The cause:  Windows has low-level hooks for apps that want to monitor
> changes to the filesystem.  For example, virus scanners use those
> heavily.  Coernic also uses them, to reindex changed files in the
> background.  So it can keep a file open beyond the time Python thinks
> it deleted it, and then trying to rmdir its parent directory fails
> (because the directory isn't really empty yet).

What happens when you use Windows Exploder to delete the folder?
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