From: Luis Lavena <luislavena@...>
Date: 2008-07-10T07:11:04+09:00
Subject: Re: How to delete a file in Win XP

On Jul 9, 8:12 pm, MAwiniarski <MAwiniar...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 1. I'm in a proper directory (using: puts Dir.entries(Dir.pwd)
> 2. File do not need to be closed, because it haven't been open (it's
> just file in a folder)
> 3. Error message:
>    Errno::EACCES: Permission denied - file
> 4. I've used chmod in previous line:
>    File.chmod(0644, file)
>    chmod return flag: 1 (one)
> 5. Using File.delete or File.unlink gives same error message
>

File.chmod has no effect on Windows.

Can you ensure that, from the command line, safely remove that file?
Even if not you the one that openned the file, maybe other part of the
OS are locking it so you can't perform the delete operation safely.

HTH,
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Luis Lavena