Hello,

i am trying to delete files which are located inside a folder.

I use FileSystemUtils.GetFilesByFolder() to get the files of the given folder and then i attempt to delete the file using FileSystemUtils.DeleteFile().

Most of the times, it does not allow the deletion and get the following error message:

"The process cannot access the file '....' because it is being used by another process."

Does the FileSystemUtils.GetFilesByFolder() somehow lock that folder or files?

I appreciate any comment you can make on this.

Thanks,

M. Mourouti

Hello everyone,

after spending a lot of time on this, i concluded to my initial thoughts, that is, FileSystemUtils.GetFolder() locks the files in that folder and i cannot delete them after accessing them though that method. I have verified this in many ways, stepped through the code and as soon as i get the files using that method, they are locked.

Is that a known issue? Is there a workaround for this?

I thought that FileSystemUtils.GetFolder() would just work as simple as :

' Get folder.
Dim folder As System.IO.DirectoryInfo = ...

' Get files for that folder.
Dim Files() As System.IO.FileInfo = folder.GetFiles()

The above code works fine without locking the files .. but it would be great if i could user DotNetNuke FolderInfo and FileInfo objects instead.

I appreciate any comments you can make on this.

Thanks,

M. Mourouti