From: Lars Christensen Date: 2009-02-20T23:44:46+09:00 Subject: Re: "permission denied" On Feb 20, 2:46 pm, Peter Bailey wrote: > Hi, > I'm frustrated with one of my Ruby scripts. It's an image processing > script that converts [sometimes thousands] of images and then HTTPs on > to archival servers. I continue to get a "permission denied" error on > one out of many files. Below is a subset of the PNG portion of my > script, with the error in question. All of the TIFFs, EPSs, and PDFs > were sent successfully. I just don't understand why some files get this > error. Obviously, it stops the whole script. Are you running on Windows and using a virus scanner? We've seen very similar problems with Symantec Antivirus on Windows XP. Only solutions are to disable the virus scanner OR "retry" deleting the file until it works.