Common error

barry.marcus · Post by **barry.marcus** » Tue Apr 26, 2011 6:41 pm

What does this mean:

006 /crosshairs: Cannot rename D:\Crosshairs\script/crosshairs.vtc to .vtx: File exists

and why does it happen fairly often? In particular, what can I do to be able to delete the .vtx file. The only way I know how to recover from it is to reboot, which is a pain, to say the least! Short of that, access is denied and I cannot delete the file. As I said, it requires a reboot of the server in order to proceed with the compilation!!!

Post by **John** » Tue Apr 26, 2011 7:00 pm

There are two options, either the file is already in use by a running texis, which would prevent deletion or renaming, or it was created by a different user, e.g. web server user vs command line user.

If it's the former then killing the texis process should unlock the file.

barry.marcus · Post by **barry.marcus** » Tue Apr 26, 2011 8:03 pm

That doesn't seem to be the case. Usually, I am the only user on this particular server, and I verify that there are no Texis processes running. I even issue

monitor -k

Nothing I do can seem to unlock that file short of reboot.

Post by **jason112** » Wed Apr 27, 2011 12:34 pm

You can use Microsoft's Process Explorer tool to find out exactly what is holding the file open (it's also a dandy task manager replacement)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysi ... s/bb896653

In the program, go to Find -> "Find Handle or DLL...", and enter "crosshairs.vtc".