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Unable to Move or Delete file

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I'm unable to move or delete file using this built-in functions

System.IO.File::Move

System.IO.File::Delete()

Because the file might be open or being read

is there any way how am I going to close from being read in order to move or delete it

It is a .csv file

Please help :)

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Brandon Wiese 17,788 on at

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Is it your form that has the file locked?

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Dick Wenning 8,705 Moderator on at

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in case your code is running server side also add this

msdn.microsoft.com/.../cc967403.aspx

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Pradeep_Prakash 717 on at

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Hi Spamm,

Were u able to resolve this issue. Can u share the sample code.

Regards,

Pradeep

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not yet. i'll still going try the solutions given above.

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Pradeep_Prakash 717 on at

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If you have opened the file after reading it call file.close After that you can move the file

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Martin Dráb 237,908 Most Valuable Professional on at

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You can't more or delete a locked file. That's the whole point of the lock, isn't it?

If it's locked by another part of your application, make sure you close the file before trying to manipulate it.

Otherwise you can wait until the file is unlocked. For example, installers often ask you to close certain applications and wait until you do that. You could programatically close the process(es) holding the lock, such as Excel having the ,csv file open, but it can be dangerous (e.g. users can lose data), therefore I would vote against it.

If you were writing something like an installer, you could also utilize Windows API function MoveFileEx with MOVEFILE_DELAY_UNTIL_REBOOT flag, but it doesn't seem to be your case.

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