Windows 8 seems to be even worse, in that it still creates the file but then keeps it open for a rather long time. The problem is, Vista and above still create the old Thumbs.db by default! This was also deprecated from Windows Vista and above, replaced by a centralised thumbnail location instead of dropping the Thumbs.db files all over your hard drive. Thumbs.db? It’s been around for ages (since Windows 95!) and is a thumbnail cache file used for Windows Explorer’s thumbnail view. I found that explorer.exe had the thumbs.db file open, even though I hadn’t navigated inside the folder. I ran Process Explorer, moved a few folders until I recreated the error and did a search for the folder that was in use. Someone (thanks Barb) reminded me that Process Explorer was a good way to work out what file was open. I was fed up with this, so thought it was about time to work out what was going on. Eventually I’d try again and after a few tries, it would finally move my folder. I’d get this continually, and quite confident that I didn’t have anything actually open. It’s the normal message saying “Folder In Use – The action can’t be completed because the folder or a file in it is open in another program” Since using Windows 8, I’ve had continual issues when trying to move folders around.
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