Hi, FYI: if you want write or delete access (anything other than read access) to a file that just got created (by yourself or someone else, does not matter), chances are you will find the file is being accessed by some other process, and your access is not granted. The other process very likely is some server code that is there to assist you somehow. Candidates are: - anti-virus software (Norton, McAfee, whatever) - indexing software (Google Desktop, MS Office, whatever) The common thing is these packages are looking all the time for new files, so they can inspect them. Microsoft is aware of the consequences; Windows Explorer will try rename and delete attempts up to five times (with one-second interval), and only reports failure if the action continues to fail for that time. The solution: 1. either use a different file name 2. or remove all background reader candidates (bad idea) 3. or implement the retry loop as Explorer has it (use a Windows.Forms.Timer for this) BTW: if all you need is Read, make sure to allow others to read as well, i.e. use File.Open(path, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read, FileShare.Read) :)
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