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Programmatically View/Close Open Files in Network Folder

Shawn Leenerts

I've got an application designed in VB.Net and I'm using part of it to programmatically rename folders, but the user gets an error if someone has a file open from that folder. Is there a way to view all of the files that are open within a specific network folder? If so, is there a way to programmatically close those files, or at least see who has the files open? Thanks for any help you can provide.

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Shawn Leenerts12y ago
Thanks for the response Mahesh Chand! But say I have a network folder with 5 files in it, and someone has one file (a PDF) open, so when I try to programmatically rename the folder I get an error... is there a way to see which of the 5 files is open and who has it opened?
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Mahesh Chand12y ago
Catch exception on File.Open method and if IOException occurs, you know file is already opened.
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