Re: [h-e-w] Trouble with TRAMP temp files under Windows 7

[Andy Moreton]

On Tue 03 Jan 2012, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> From: "Katz, Dan" <address@hidden>
>> CC: "address@hidden" <address@hidden>
>> Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2012 18:20:10 +0000
>> 
>> >>   (nil 1 "dpkatz" "Domain Users" (20227 15644) (20227 15645) (20227 
>> >> 15644) 22914 "-rw-rw-rw-" nil (29184 1 . 38188) (57524 . 40871))
>> >
>> > I see nothing extraordinary here.  If you now type
>> >
>> >   M-x delete-file RET c:/Users/dpkatz/tmp/ange-ftp4392cgy RET
>> >
>> > does Emacs succeed in deleting it, or do you get the same "permission
>> > denied" error again?
>> 
>> If I just call delete-file as you suggest, it succeeds and deletes the file.
>
> Which probably means that some process holds that file open when Emacs
> originally tries to delete it.  Maybe the ftp process?

Or an anti-virus scanner.