The action can't be completed because the folder or a file in it is open in another program. Close the folder or file and try again. This is done for good reason.

How to delete a file being used by another program Here are some practical ways to dodge the pop-up and delete files that are in use by a program on your Windows PC.

Also, ensure the file isn’t open in another application before running your Java program. If necessary, use FileChannel or java.nio package to handle files more robustly.

Cannot rename file on Desktop? File Name too long? Action cannot be completed because the file is open in another program? Access is denied in OneDrive? Here's the fix!

When working with files (especially when downloading stuff from the web using my web browser), I quite often keep downloaded .zip, .rar, etc files on my Desktop. Quite often I keep running into a ...

Jugalkumar Kshirsagar asked how to delete a file that Windows insists is open. For reasons that should be obvious, Windows can’t delete a file—or move one—if it’s in use by a program. The ...

The file might be in use or open in another program, or the folder might be read-only.” I’m stumped! I would prefer to perform these/this operation in Explorer andnot in photo viewer (s).

When you open files that have a particular file extension, Windows will look at its configuration to determine what the default program should be in order to work with these files. The default ...