Error message: process cannot access.....

I have been having frequent problems with the following error message ending my downloads:

Error: the process cannot access the file because the file is being used by another process

I have not seen a pattern to this until today. Here's what happened. I was downloading four episodes of a show. One completed and showed up as usual in my download folder. But, it disappeared from Bittorrent after it completed instead of staying there to seed.

Just a minute or less after this, the other three episode downloads stopped with the error message (above) popping up.

The four episode file names all begin with the same words and punctuation. I mention this because I am wondering if it has anything to do with the error message occuring.

Does anyone know what's going on?

Thanks.

Whats is your client?
Are you using a beta/alpha version?

Try to restart your PC, because if it says it's being used by another process is probably because you have 2 instances of the same client running, then that error will appear...

What client are you using?

I am using bittorrent, but I have limewire and emule running simultaneously.

BitTorrent 6?

It's the same thing as uTorrent.

Close all the other P2P apps, and try again, also try to restart your PC.

BitTorrent 6.03.
I will close eMule and Limewire, reboot and see what happens.

I had the exact same problem. And it was because i was using google desktop. If you using any kind of file indexing software it causes utorrent to give that error. Try stoping that.

It can be also anti-virus checking your files when the p2p client is trying to overwrite it. Try to exclude your dl catalogue from av scan ;)

Original poster here:

I am waiting to see if it happens again after following suggestions of rebooting and not having any other P2P client running.

About Google desktop. I'm not sure what you mean. I use Google search engine, if that's what you mean. Can you explain further about what you mean by 'desktop'? And, sorry, I don't know what file indexing software means.

Thanks for the help so far.

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Originally Posted by shokan

Original poster here:

I am waiting to see if it happens again after following suggestions of rebooting and not having any other P2P client running.

About Google desktop. I'm not sure what you mean. I use Google search engine, if that's what you mean. Can you explain further about what you mean by 'desktop'? And, sorry, I don't know what file indexing software means.

Thanks for the help so far.

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Okay, but make sure you won't open emule and Limewire again before you try to download (and finish it) something with BT.

About Google desktop is a bundle of applications i think, it has nothing to do with the Google search engine lol.;)

Cool.
If these suggestions work, what is the reason for not having other P2P's running at the same time?

It may also be down to a FULL hard drive causing the torrent client to abort prematurely.

It could also be a media player trying to play the files by association.

You just have to eliminate things one by one.

About full HD: this is possible. I am new to computers... where do I see how much space i have?

(note added: no, I have lots of space)

About media player: VLc icon has appeared with files where it did not before. Don't know if this is significant. Please explain more about this.

Im sure its Google Desktop.

I recentley installed it. and after a continually got exactly the same error. It was the Utorrent forum that pointed me in the direction of google desktop.

If you have google desktop running you'll have a little red and yellow spiral icon near the clock at the bottom right hand corner of you screen. Right click on the icon and press to exit.

It will work now and you wont get the error message...

Original poster here:
No, don't have Google desktop. Is there another program I might have that is similar that would cause the same problem as Google Desktop?

do you use a search programe to find files on your hard drive?

ie you type in the search box to find a folder a file. That software works by checking at regular intervals for any new files on your harddrive. Utorrent doesnt like it and give you that error

Original poster here;
I just use the search feature that Windows has at the startup menu. I only use it occasionally.
Maybe I should mention again what happened today. One of four similar files completed, then the other three got the message and stopped.

Original poster here:

It has happened again. Four files have stopped, all within 30 seconds of each other, with that same message popping up. They had been going fine for an hour or so.

Don't know what try next.

Original poster here:

It has happened again. Four files have stopped, all within 30 seconds of each other, with that same message popping up. They had been going fine for an hour or so.

Don't know what try next.

Stop the four torrents.

Remove the torrents from utorrent.

copy the 4 files what is left to a backup location.

Delete the original 4 files.

Copy the backups back to their original location.

Redownload the torrents from whence you got them, let them check the files and see if they will continue downloading & seeding.

Just to clarify, because I am not knowledgable:

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Stop the four torrents.
They are have already stopped in this case and have error message following name.

Remove the torrents from utorrent.
Right click on the stopped files and click 'remove'?

copy the 4 files what is left to a backup location.
Go to download folder and copy paste the incomplete files to a new folder somewhere?

Delete the original 4 files.
Delete the four incomplete files in download folder?

Copy the backups back to their original location.
Copy and paste the moved incomplete files back into download folder?

Redownload the torrents from whence you got them, let them check the files and see if they will continue downloading & seeding.
Go back to Isohunt and re-download?

If that says is being used by another process then the problem are not in the torrents by in the client, or another app messing with them.

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Do you have anything by "Roxio" installed? Uninstall it and try the downloads again:rolleyes:

This happened to me the other day.It was because NOD32 thought the file had a virus in it so it stopped it from downloading.I almost guarantee that is what is happening here check it out.

If you have NOD32 open the control center then click on logs and check on the threat log and see what it says!

Do you have anything by "Roxio" installed? Uninstall it and try the downloads again

Yes, I do. I'll try that but why should it help?

If you have NOD32 open the control center then click on logs and check on the threat log and see what it says!

Sorry, can you elaborate? I do not not know what or where NOD32 is.

It is an antivirus program so i guess if you don't know what it is you don't have it.

If you do then go to the start menu then All Programs Then ESET then NOD32 Control Center.Then when it comes up go to LOGS and THREAT LOG and look to see if it says anything in there about the torrent you are trying to download.It also could be any other anti virus program you are using.

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Originally Posted by shokan

Do you have anything by "Roxio" installed? Uninstall it and try the downloads again

Yes, I do. I'll try that but why should it help?

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Well, why don't you try? I think i'm not a wizard to guess what you have installed on your PC:lol: Just uninstall it, if it don't work (:rolleyes:) then you can install it again.

:happy:

lol!!

So, did it fixed the problem? :P

To the OP I would recommend you use utorrent 1.77 or azureus 3. One of those versions. Also when your client acts up just restart your client and sometimes even your computer. Also make sure your bittorrent client program is allowed in the allowed programs list in your anti-virus program. Just some suggestions and advice.

OP here:
Got rid of Roxio and as I fully expected, it didn't help any. Tried SgtMajor suggestion (see post above) ---> I cannot delete the failed files from the download folder. I get an error message saying access is denied.
What the ...?
I will try another client as my next try.

(btw, how CAN I ever get rid of the incomplete files out of the download folder?)

Shut down, restart in safe mode, then remove the files, something is trying to access them so they will always appear be being used by another process.

Then restart and copy back.

Not to be a dick or nothing but every thread you have made is asking for help on somethings that seem incredibly easy to figure out.Did you just get a computer recently or are you a young or something?Sounds like an asshole question i know but I'm actually being serious.

Okay, since Google is "my friend" i've used it and searched for your problem, and i've got in both uTorrent forum threads problems with Roxio.

The google search: http://www.google.pt/search?hl=en&q=...e+Search&meta=

The uTorrent forum threads:
http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=1407&p=1
http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?pid=320874

PS: BitTorrent 6 is the same thing as uTorrent

Holy Moly, HDR's got it! Here's a quote from one of the links he/she provided:

A third possibility is that you are viewing the folder while it's downloading, and Explorer is set to thumbnail mode. If this is the case, Explorer would try to access these files while viewing the folder in Thumbnail mode, and lock out µTorrent from writing. The solution is to not view the folder until the download is finished, don't use Thumbnail mode, or turn off flush files.
It's also possible that Explorer is trying to read the media files (MP3, AVI and so on) in the folder to make thumbnails, show you information about them, or preview them. You can unregister the media indexer (Start -> Run -> regsvr32 /u shmedia.dll ), and/or unregister the image indexer (Start -> Run -> regsvr32 /u shimgvw.dll ) as an alternative for either case, not view the folder, or turn off flush files.

In fact, I DID open the download folder during this past occurence of the error message and I DID have thumbnails enabled. The multiple error messages happened immediately afterward. I just thought of it as a weird coincidence. But, now that I think back, I opened the download folder (for whatever reason) the time before also when I got the error messages.

So, thanks very much, HDR. I will look more closely at the "turn off indexer" explanation above and try to get it done. I'm not too swift with computers. "However, problematic incidents, machines and people fortunately no longer bait me" -- shokan 2008

PS. thanks to all for yer assistance. MunkyBoy44 also mentioned the indexing problem early on.

Finally! lol, glad you got it fixed :happy:

But was my fault because i should sent the links instead of talking about Roxio, that way your problem would have been fixed faster, sorry:(

Anyway, like i've said i'm glad that your problem is solves now :yup::happy:

Roxio has a media indexer, so it's the same thing as the Explorer indexer action with the thumbnails I assume... so actually, you were correct. Thanks very much.

You know, when I opened the download folder to look at something and then the error messages popped up all over the place, I thought, "Well, that's weird. But how could just opening a folder have anything to do with anything?" So, I didn't even mention this in the thread. I mighta saved yez'all a bunch of posts if I had. Then again, I WOULD NOT have figured this stuff out in a million years on my own.