Error file is used by another process

Rachel Lavoie · Post by **Rachel Lavoie** » Tue Sep 14, 2004 2:39 pm

When programmers work with Miscrosoft Visual Studio and Vault, then they try a get latest version on files opened by both, sporadically Vault pop up that one or more file couldn't be updated because it detects that another process is using the or these file(s).

It is obvious that this process is Microsoft Visual Studio because until then, the command won't work even if we retry, but will work as soon as we close the app.

Do you have any idea what could be the source of this problem (Vault or Microsoft Visual Studio) and do you have any solutions to resolve this problem?

Thanks in advance.

dan · Post by **dan** » Tue Sep 14, 2004 4:07 pm

We have had reports about this sometimes when a DLL is stored in Vault and the DLL is currently in-use. Sometimes it is a webservice DLL that has been cached by IIS, when people are working with web projects.

If the file really is in-use, there isn't much Vault can do, because the OS won't let us overwrite it (for good reason!). You'll have to figure out which file it is and why it is in-use.