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File Explorer prevents renaming of file

Hi,

I'm using System.IO.File.Move(OLDname, NEWname) to rename a file (I'm not
moving it to a new folder). If the folder containing the file is open in
the file explorer, the Move fails with an exception "The process cannot
access the file "NEWname" because it is being used by another process" .
Any ideas how I can prevent this? (except not having the folder open in
File Explorer.... :-)

Thanks
Jan
Nov 16 '05 #1
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