[CMI.PM] Mongers - need to pick your brains

[Steven Stone]

I think this is what you want:  (note, I haven't tried it)

   http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896655


On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 11:21 AM, Bob Kuo <bobjkuo at gmail.com> wrote:

> Looks like this stack overflow post might be perfect:
>
>
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3220206/determine-whether-a-file-is-in-use-in-perl-on-windows
>
> There might be a nicer way if your machine has powershell which would
> allow you to directly call Windows APIs.
>
> b
>
> On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 10:00 AM, Price, Bob <BPrice at atgf.com> wrote:
> > I’m looking for a way to find out on a windoze platform whether or not a
> file is open by another process or user.
> >
> > Scenario:
> >
> > I have a process that copies files from one location to another, and
> deletes the original file upon successful copy. The problem arises when a
> user is holding that file open in another program (i.e. open in acrobat,
> still being written, etc.), and I don’t want to loop back and copy the file
> again. I would rather be able to determine that the file is in use, and
> just skip on to the next file, coming back later to check on the file and
> process it when it is no longer in use.
> >
> > Any experience with this?
> >
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