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From: bklumper on 22 Jan 2010 11:37
I suddenly have this problem, at least 8 times in the past 2 weeks on a
Windows 2008 server, once on a Vista machine, and now once on a Windows XP
Professional machine. Each time a file (different files) is deleted, but
remains visible, can not be read / renamed / copied / deleted, and only
disappears after a reboot.

The delete is done in various ways, sometimes a kill statement in VB6 or
Excel/VBA, or a DOS MOVE or DELETE statement. I believe the file was at that
time already held / locked by the system, and therefore the delete was
accepted but not executed.

Sometimes process explorer shows the file in use by process 4, the system,
sometimes I can not find a lock

Yesterday I had even two files (in the same folder) I could not overwrite
from within a program, but I could however overwrite them with Windows
Explorer. I could rename them, but then I could not overwrite the renamed
files from within those programs. I did delete one of them through Windows
Explorer - problem solved. The other file I tried to delete via VB6 / kill -
the delete was accepted but the file ended up in what I call "delete pending"

This started happening approximately 2 weeks ago - possibly after updates
were applied to the various systems. But a bug accross different platforms,
including XP (SP2!)??

The programs have been running for over a year without fail, and still work
most of the time.

Any suggestions??
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