Delete = File In Use

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Zardoz2293
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Delete = File In Use

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Would be great to have enhancement in XY / XYcopy providing list of processes in detail which prevent a file from being deleted via the age old meaningless message of "File In Use." Better yet, having in addition, a button that terminates the handle locking the file from being deleted (a forced delete).
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Basically a hook/link to (portable) Unlocker [just saying]
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XY cannot do so. Use Lockhunter instead http://lockhunter.com/
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binocular222 wrote:XY cannot do so. Use Lockhunter instead http://lockhunter.com/
It's a request to do so. BTW, Why would anyone want (YAT) yet another tool?

BTW, binocular222, thanks for the link!

It's just from my perspective XY is a file management tool and having a powerful way to address locked files really goes with the environment.
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Marco wrote:Basically a hook/link to (portable) Unlocker [just saying]
Frankly, any improvement is HIGHLY welcome. If you happen to do a RENAME with a "file-in-use" you can get into a ridiculous back-n-forth set of dialogs as it can't rename, and when it returns back to XY it again tries to rename in a loop, unless you hit the escape key at exactly the right time to break the inline rename.
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It's a good feature in a file manager, which I already asked before, however, also a fairly complex task. I doubt that Don will ever have time for this
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"It's a good feature in a file manager, which I already asked before, however, also a fairly complex task. I doubt that Don will ever have time for this"

I agree with Zardoz2293... I had lots of trouble with XY trying to rename a folder that XY itself was apparetnly locking - just because that folder was open in XY, or a file locked for some non-obvious reason. Part of the problem is that XY doesn't force its error messages to the top, so often they would be invisible. Makes it appear to be a loop.

So I would love to see robust file and folder unlocking in XY.

But I also hear what binocluar222 is saying about available time. If unlocking was simple there would be more tools to do it. Collomb's Unlocker seems to have been taken over by others who are turning it into a marketing machine.

So, thanks to binocular222 for the link to Lockhunter. I'll be glad to try that. I see its made by the same outfit that makes USB Safely Remove, which is the best such tool I've ever found. It fixed 90% of the endless problems I've had with removal.

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Papoulka wrote:"It's a good feature in a file manager, which I already asked before, however, also a fairly complex task. I doubt that Don will ever have time for this"

I agree with Zardoz2293... I had lots of trouble with XY trying to rename a folder that XY itself was apparetnly locking - just because that folder was open in XY, or a file locked for some non-obvious reason. Part of the problem is that XY doesn't force its error messages to the top, so often they would be invisible. Makes it appear to be a loop.

So I would love to see robust file and folder unlocking in XY.

But I also hear what binocluar222 is saying about available time. If unlocking was simple there would be more tools to do it. Collomb's Unlocker seems to have been taken over by others who are turning it into a marketing machine.

So, thanks to binocular222 for the link to Lockhunter. I'll be glad to try that. I see its made by the same outfit that makes USB Safely Remove, which is the best such tool I've ever found. It fixed 90% of the endless problems I've had with removal.
Frankly, the complexity argument doesn't float with me as there are many things in XY that are "complex" yet they exist. It is significantly more complex within XY to manage the folders and files it has "opened/locked" rather than writing code to traverse the memory handle objects for a specific file or folder that is known to be locked.

File / Folder locking has become a MP (my problem) not an YP (your problem) concern and that's the real problem and source why it's always in the background for support in the industry as a generalization where the developer claims to rarely, if ever, encounter the concern and / or there are few, if any, complaints regarding the concern. If tomorrow a large majority of those in the XY forum made a lot of noise for having this support, it is quite possible, the priority level would be changed to a near future project. Regardless, from my perception, XY is a file management tool with a significant visual component and should have robust file open/locking handling that is slick. I'd say that 99 percent of all my gripes with XY are directly related to how open/locked files/folders are handled: Tree View, Preview, Rename and Delete and of course the dialog messages that get "stuck" into the background (where you don't know they exist). I'll point a single 'finger' to the real culprit regarding this whole file open/locked is Microsoft. Why? Simple. You pass a file/folder object to the Windows API (whatever flavor) and if it fail it should pass an object to a list of what has locks on it -- this might lead to countries around the world having a increase in their GDP form higher productivity. Since it isn't there one needs to build the capability.
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... the developer claims to rarely, if ever, encounter the concern and / or there are few, if any, complaints regarding the concern. If tomorrow a large majority of those in the XY forum made a lot of noise for having this support, it is quite possible, the priority level would be changed to a near future project. ...
That's not true. Browse the bug reports and wishes subforums. You'll find many fixed bugs /granted wishes which were backed by a single person. The wish needs to be sensible, is all.
And come to your file-locking problem: do you expect Don to fix a bug which neither he, nor anybody else has faced? (I didn't get locked files using WinRAR, sfx. I think some other app, perhaps a shell extension,is responsible for the file-locks you've been experiencing.)
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SammaySarkar wrote:That's not true. Browse the bug reports and wishes subforums. You'll find many fixed bugs /granted wishes which were backed by a single person. The wish needs to be sensible, is all. And come to your file-locking problem: do you expect Don to fix a bug which neither he, nor anybody else has faced? (I didn't get locked files using WinRAR, sfx. I think some other app, perhaps a shell extension,is responsible for the file-locks you've been experiencing.)
My statement is absoultely true. You are making an assumption I'm specifically talking about the developer of XY. I'm not. It's a generalized statement of the industry.
SammaySarkar wrote:And come to your file-locking problem: do you expect Don to fix a bug which neither he, nor anybody else has faced? (I didn't get locked files using WinRAR, sfx. I think some other app, perhaps a shell extension,is responsible for the file-locks you've been experiencing.)
I think you should really read what's being said. I really can't respond as your statements imply you either can't or are unable to read. The graphic photo on LockHunter shows XY holding the locks. ID-10-T
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It's a generalized statement of the industry.
Okay.
The graphic photo on LockHunter shows XY holding the locks
Yes, that's why I mentioned shell extensions. But it's also possible that other programs lock the file even though XY is shown as the "lock source".


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Re: Delete = File In Use

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Build 19.0.0102 (2018)-06-14) has introduced the file locking bug where a file which is highlighted (selected) in XY cannot be deleted.

Build 19.0.0006 (2018-05-30) doesn't have this concern.
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