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Tuesday, November 10, 2009

The File is open in another program

Recently while working on a big file, somehow it got locked. I was not able to rename, move or delete it from Vista machine. It was giving me the error:

 

The action can’t be completed because the file is open in another program

Close the File and try again.

 

See error image

 

The popup window had two choices Try Again and Cancel. Clicking try again didn’t help. I looked into process and rebooted the system. But the problem stayed. Finally I found the free products Unlocker. It allows you to right click over a file and choose unlock and then delete, move or rename the locked file.

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