[Tutor] Unlocking a windows file

aschmidt at fredericksburg.com aschmidt at fredericksburg.com
Fri Nov 14 16:53:21 EST 2003


Nevermind. Sorry for the disturbance. Getting late on a Friday and my head is just not thinking clearly. Danged Windows permissions....

aschmidt at fredericksburg.com wrote ..
> Strange.
> I have a small script that runs and looks in a folder on a windows server
> for the existence of a file that matches a pattern. The files are put there
> as the result of another windows appplication that has chewed on the file
> in one folder and moved it to a new folder. I am trying to process the
> file and then move/rename/whatever that file to an archive folder of sorts.
> I can copy it, but cannot move it or rename it to a new folder. Its just
> not working.
> If the old process locked it somehow, how can I unlock it? Remove all system
> hooks it could have on it. Its just a text file.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Allen


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