Windows 2008 R2 – Kernel (System Process PID=4) is locking files and folders

As Dani has already mentioned in the comment: It’s a bug in Windows 7 and likely in Windows Server 2008 (possibly 64bit versions only). It surfaces when you disable Application Experience service. Re-enabling this service has fixed this problem for me. A bit more info here as to why it’s causing a problem. List of … Read more

Script to convert .XLSX to Google Sheet and move converted file

You want to create the converted Google Spreadsheet files to “FolderB”. You want to delete the XLSX files in “FolderA” after the files were converted. You want to achieve above using Google Apps Script. If my understanding correct, how about this modification? In this modification, I modified your script. Modification points: You can directly create … Read more

How do I delete files programmatically on Android?

Why don’t you test this with this code: File fdelete = new File(uri.getPath()); if (fdelete.exists()) { if (fdelete.delete()) { System.out.println(“file Deleted :” + uri.getPath()); } else { System.out.println(“file not Deleted :” + uri.getPath()); } } I think part of the problem is you never try to delete the file, you just keep creating a variable … Read more

Automatically Delete Files/Folders

Maybe you’re just looking for a combination of file.remove and list.files? Maybe something like: do.call(file.remove, list(list.files(“C:/Temp”, full.names = TRUE))) And I guess you can filter the list of files down to those whose names match a certain pattern using grep or grepl, no?

Deleting read-only directory in Python

shutil.rmtree can take an error-handling function that will be called when it has problem removing a file. You can use that to force the removal of the problematic file(s). Inspired by http://mail.python.org/pipermail/tutor/2006-June/047551.html and http://techarttiki.blogspot.com/2008/08/read-only-windows-files-with-python.html: import os import stat import shutil def remove_readonly(func, path, excinfo): os.chmod(path, stat.S_IWRITE) func(path) shutil.rmtree(top, onerror=remove_readonly) (I haven’t tested that snippet out, … Read more