MrAsm wrote:
On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 16:48:49 +0800, "Eric" <EricLiu@moxrd.com> wrote:
Hi, everyone:
My tester found a bug of my responsible software. However, notepad also
behaves in the same way. Launch notepad, input something, save to a
folder. Turn to Windows Explorer to delete that folder. Windows shows an
error message box, saying " Cannot delete <folder name>; It is being used
by another person or program. ....". Close Notepad, try to delete it
again. Successful.
I am astonishing about this!!!!
Any idea?
I'm not astonished at all about this.
Instead, I think it is a correct behaviour by Windows to forbid to
delete files or folders that are in use (somehow "locked") by other
apps.
MrAsm
Eric/Asm:
Actually, there is something strange here. I tried it with Wordpad. It is
not the file that is "in use" by Wordpad that cannot be deleted, it is the
folder containing it. And it only seems to happen after Wordpad has saved
the file; it does not happen when Wordpad has just opened a file.
AFAIK, Wordpad is an SDI application. When it opens or saves, it opens the
file, reads or writes, and then closes the file again. It does not hold on
to the file handle. And in fact the file in question can be deleted in
Explorer; it is the folder containing it that cannot be deleted.
(This is all in XP Pro SP2)
David Wilkinson