Is it possible to find which locked file is trying to use one specific program?

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Hello all,

I'm using a program that I can't get support from the original company as they've disappeared.

Now each time that somebody tries to print a report a message telling me something like:

"Error copying to the temporal file (TransferMetaFile)"

This makes it impossible to make this program to work.

I've thought that the possible problem here would be something like a linux server permission that has become stuck after a power outage.

The problem here is that I don't know which permissions should I put in all the files and I would not like to modify all of them manually without having tested everything else first.

If I would be capable to find out which file is being attempted to use this would help a little...

Any idea about how can I get it?

PS: I've tried to paste the message into the google search box without luck... in spanish (the original message is in Spanish) I've got two results and in english I can't get anything interesting...

Well, as always, thank you in advance.

Best regards.

Posted 15-Mar-10 5:38am

Joan M

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Keith Barrow · Answer 1 · 2010-03-15T06:43:00

For Windows:

For just unlocking the file (although it does tell you which process is locking it) this has proven to be good for me at least:
http://www.brothersoft.com/downloads/unlocker-assistant.html[^]

Also this suite if pretty useful:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb842062.aspx[^]

Richard MacCutchan · Answer 2 · 2010-03-15T06:51:00

Solution 2

Assuming you are talking about Linux you could use the flock()[^] function. However, you still need to know the full path to the file. Also worth checking are the directory permissions where you are trying to create this file; does the user have write permission?

Posted 15-Mar-10 6:51am

Richard MacCutchan