WhoLockMe does not work on Windows 7. GarryEnglish- As stated by GuiSim, this is for sure not always the case, and in my experience, it is rarely the case. Show 13 more comments. From its introduction: Ever wondered which program has a particular file or directory open? Now you can find out.
Enter the name of the file and press Search. Peter Mortensen Eroen Eroen 6, 1 1 gold badge 16 16 silver badges 25 25 bronze badges. Process Hacker also can do it. As another answer mentions, Handle is a command line tool from SysInternals that will also accomplish this task. I forgot a cmd proces open in the folder, proces explorer helped me notice it. Show 2 more comments. Shows processes locking a file or folder Allows to unlock, delete, copy or rename a locked file Allows to kill locking process Allows to remove locking processes from hard drive Integrates in to Explorer menu It deletes files into the recycle bin, so you may restore them if deleted by mistake Supports both 32 and 64bit Windows.
Community Bot 1. Mehper C. Palavuzlar Mehper C. Palavuzlar Top two answers didn't work me and the next upvoted ones were either blocked by my firewall or warned not to go to by my chrome!. LockHunter worked perfectly. Luck hunter has worked for me when others haven't — sheldonhull. This one works. This is great but the portable version doesn't integrate with the explorer menu — Phani Rithvij. Add a comment. John: Well, it does identify the program that has locked a file.
And you can still manually kill the process through task manager. However, it's usually simpler to just unlock the file especially when it's explorer that has locked the file most of the time instead of having the kill the process that has locked it usually due to having accessed the file and left the file handler open due to a program glitch.
Though the best part is the explorer menu integration, which is easy to enable. As per website Explorer Context Menu Starting from version 1. This tool still works reliably in Vijay Vijay 1, 13 13 silver badges 30 30 bronze badges. Wonderful tool, as always with Nirsoft freeware! Rajesh Rajesh 51 1 1 silver badge 1 1 bronze badge. This will only work for shared folders. PolarBear PolarBear 1 1 silver badge 5 5 bronze badges. Excellent tool, thanks!
Windows Additional possibility, just to save people the time I just spent: In older versions of Windows, you might get "Access Denied - you might not have rights, or the file might be in use". Change ownership to Administrators and you are good to go. Stu Stu 3 3 bronze badges. Incidentally, none of the above answers solved my problem.
My problem was that of Memeo Autosync Backup Apparently, this backup process leaves enough of a "ghost like file. For you, it could be ANY of these background saves. Sri Reddy Sri Reddy 1 1 bronze badge. The Overflow Blog. Stack Gives Back Safety in numbers: crowdsourcing data on nefarious IP addresses. Learn more. Identify process using a file Ask Question. Asked 13 years ago. Active 5 years, 8 months ago.
Viewed 51k times. Can anyone drop me a hint? Improve this question. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Community Bot 1 1 1 silver badge. Neil Neil MichaelBest Search the link in the Wayback Machine to get a nicely formatted result, or to see the migrated version here. Marc Marc 1, 2 2 gold badges 10 10 silver badges 15 15 bronze badges. On Linux this is not much of a problem since inodes are refcounted, so you can remove a file even if someone is holding it open.
This error also happens with a file, when we tried to move a file, or delete those file. To get the process holding those folder or file, we can use these two utilities:. You can then close the application if you are able to do that, or just right-click the row and you'll get the option of killing the process End Process right there.
Process Explorer shows you information about which handles and DLLs processes have opened or loaded. Same as Resource Monitor, an individual handle in the list can be killed by selecting it and pressing the delete key or Close Handle. However, please be careful when deleting handles, as system instabilities may occur. Handle is a command line version of Process Explorer. I prefer to use Resource Monitor compare to Process Explorer since Process Explorer is slower especially during "Refreshing handles" process.
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