Deleting a Back up File
I am trying to delete a couple of Outlook Data Files but it will not let me because it is still opened by w3wp.exe. It also freezes my window when I try to delte them.
Any thoughts?
August 30th, 2011 12:00pm
Don't delete them?Ed Crowley MVP "There are seldom good technological solutions to behavioral problems."
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August 30th, 2011 1:17pm
Well they were apart of a test run for a script i was making. Now they are just taking up space on my backup drive.
August 30th, 2011 1:32pm
Yeah, but they're in use.Ed Crowley MVP "There are seldom good technological solutions to behavioral problems."
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August 30th, 2011 1:41pm
I guess my new question is if they are back up files, why are they in use?
August 30th, 2011 1:45pm
Perhaps someone in the Outlook forum will know the answer to that.
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August 30th, 2011 1:49pm
On Tue, 30 Aug 2011 17:37:21 +0000, kgarrett34 wrote:
>I guess my new question is if they are back up files, why are they in use?
A better question would be "why are they opened by an IIS worker
process?"
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August 30th, 2011 9:10pm
I will go with that one also. After the back up nothing has been done with those files so I cannot answer that question.
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August 31st, 2011 11:58am
On Wed, 31 Aug 2011 15:48:36 +0000, kgarrett34 wrote:
>I will go with that one also. After the back up nothing has been done with those files so I cannot answer that question.
Did you put those files in an e-mail?
I suppose you could recycle IIS (iisreset) and see if it frees those
files.
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August 31st, 2011 10:09pm
I haven't touched those files.
if I did an iisreset would that affect anything running currently on the server?
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September 1st, 2011 12:39pm
On Thu, 1 Sep 2011 16:30:16 +0000, kgarrett34 wrote:
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>I haven't touched those files.
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>if I did an iisreset would that affect anything running currently on the server?
Sure. Everything associated with IIS. But only for as long as it took
to stop and restart the IIS stuff.
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September 1st, 2011 6:30pm
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