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

I am getting binary data from a SQL Server database field and am creating a document locally in a directory my application has permissions. However I am still getting the error specified in the title. I have tried numerous suggestions posted on the web including those suggested in previous posts on Stackoverflow. I have also used ProcessExplorer > Find Handle to locate the lock and it returns nothing as if the file is not locked.

I am using the code below to save the file to the file system and I then try to copy this file to a new location later in the application process within another method. It is this copy method that takes the path of the newly created file that throws the exception.

The file itself is created with its content and i can open it through Windows Explorer without any problems.开发者_C百科

Am I missing something completely obvious? Am I creating the file correctly from the database? Any help on solving or better diagnosing the problem would be much appreciated.

// Get file from DB
FileStream fs = new FileStream(
    "C:\myTempDirectory\myFile.doc", FileMode.OpenOrCreate, FileAccess.Write);
BinaryWriter br = new BinaryWriter(fs);
br.Write("BinaryDataFromDB");
fs.Flush();
fs.Close();
fs.Dispose();

// Copy file
File.Copy(sourceFileName, destinationFilename, true);

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Try adding a call to GC.Collect() after you have disposed of your streams to force the garbage collector to clean up.

// Get file from DB 
using(FileStream fs = new FileStream("C:\myTempDirectory\myFile.doc", FileMode.OpenOrCreate, FileAccess.Write)) 
using(BinaryWriter br = new BinaryWriter(fs))
{
   br.Write("BinaryDataFromDB"); 
   fs.Flush(); 
}

//Force clean up
GC.Collect();

// Copy file 
File.Copy(sourceFileName, destinationFilename, true); 

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change your code as follows, the problem is that the the filestream isn't being garbage collected when you need it to:

    // Get file from DB 
using (FileStream fs = new FileStream("C:\myTempDirectory\myFile.doc", FileMode.OpenOrCreate, FileAccess.Write)) 
{
    BinaryWriter br = new BinaryWriter(fs); 
    br.Write("BinaryDataFromDB"); 
    fs.Flush(); 
    fs.Close(); 
}

// Copy file 
File.Copy(sourceFileName, destinationFilename, true);

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What about using?

string source = @"C:\myTempDirectory\myFile.doc";
using(FileStream fs = new FileStream(
    source, FileMode.OpenOrCreate, FileAccess.Write, FileShare.Read))
{
    BinaryWriter br = new BinaryWriter(fs);
    br.Write("BinaryDataFromDB");
}

File.Copy(sourceFileName, destinationFilename, true);

EDIT: Try to inform a FileShare.Read permission.

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I came to understand that though the error debugger says that the error lies in this code.. But that isn't where the error is.. I faced a similar issue and I came with this solution.. consider all the posts above.. May be it may help some one..

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I used the Image to show it in a picturebox after retreiving from Database and saving it as "temp.bmp" using normal coding without using "using" keyword using this code at first:

PictureBox1.Image = Image.FromFile("temp.bmp");

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and it raised and error and I really didn't got head and tail of the error.. and so I came up with this solution.

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Instead of assigning it directly try this code:

Bitmap img;
using (Bitmap bmp = new Bitmap("temp.bmp"))
{
    img = new Bitmap(bmp);
}
pictureBox1.Image = img;

coming to the filestream part I just used normal code as follows:

FileStream fs = new FileStream("filepath",FileMode.Create);

and it worked like a piece of cake

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It really helped

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Is it that Filestream and BinaryWriter cannot be used at the same time? For instance, a streamwriter and a streamreader cannot both be called on the same file. However, this doesn't make sense, as far as I know, it should not in this case. Perhaps try closing br as well?

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Try disposing your BinaryWriter object before doing the copy.

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Is there a background process such as antivirus or file-system indexing locking the file just long enough to cause problems with your application? Try pausing for 3 seconds to see if your problem disappears.

using System.Threading;

fs.Dispose();
Thread.Sleep(3000);
// Copy file

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This was what I did:

Stream stream = new MemoryStream();
var tempStream = new FileStream(pathToFile, FileMode.Open);
tempStream.CopyTo(stream);
tempStream.Close();

then use stream object wherever you want.

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I seem to encounter this only after I have published an application. If you close the message box and try again to debug, nothing will happen. MS Help says to get all the way out of Visual Studio and restart it. Its easier to bring up Task manager and end the process. Its name will be the solution name followed by ".vshost" (e.g. project name: PLC.sln; process name: PLC.vshost.exe). The process will restart automatically. In Windows 7 one could usually see something happen when ending a process. But in 10 the Task Manager window rarely changes. I get this message when I try testing a program after changing code. Apparently the .exe is not closed when one stops debugging and the error occurs when VS tries to write a newly complied exe file. I sometimes have to end the process twice to keep the error message from coming back. (I have to encounter the error twice; ending the process twice and then rerunning doesn't help.) This is a bug in Visual Studio.