aFile.delete() strangely fails

[Ron Brennan]

Good afternoon. On windows 2000 -

aFile.exists() returns true
aFile.canRead() returns true
aFile.canWrite() returns true

....and immediately afterwards aFile.delete() returns false
and the file is not deleted.

Any ideas why?

Ron.

[Ryan Stewart]

"Ron Brennan" <rb******@magma.ca> wrote in message
news:Ru********************@magma.ca...

Good afternoon. On windows 2000 -

aFile.exists() returns true
aFile.canRead() returns true
aFile.canWrite() returns true

...and immediately afterwards aFile.delete() returns false
and the file is not deleted.

Any ideas why?

Ron.

Maybe it's in use by another process?

[Ron Brennan]

That would make sense. It looks like maybe an abnormally ended process but
be the culpret. I haven't found it yet but I'm still looking.

"Ryan Stewart" <zz********@gSPAMo.com> wrote in message
news:4M********************@texas.net...

"Ron Brennan" <rb******@magma.ca> wrote in message
news:Ru********************@magma.ca...

Good afternoon. On windows 2000 -

aFile.exists() returns true
aFile.canRead() returns true
aFile.canWrite() returns true

...and immediately afterwards aFile.delete() returns false
and the file is not deleted.

Any ideas why?

Ron.

Maybe it's in use by another process?

[Ron Brennan]

Good morning.

The problem turned out to be my not closing an ImageInputStream and an
ImageOutputStream:

try {
anImageInputStream.close();
} catch (IOException e) {
}

Ron.

"Ron Brennan" <rb******@magma.ca> wrote in message
news:Ru********************@magma.ca...

Good afternoon. On windows 2000 -

aFile.exists() returns true
aFile.canRead() returns true
aFile.canWrite() returns true

...and immediately afterwards aFile.delete() returns false
and the file is not deleted.

Any ideas why?

Ron.