Force open file to close

Show 3 more comments. Active Oldest Votes. So your problem must be somewhere else. But you might try something like try: qq. Improve this answer. I know but the problem is still here. I call 'close' but file was not closed in fact Handler is still in system, that's what Resource Monitor shows — The Godfather. TheGodfather I have added to my answer so that might help you.

If it is still open at system level, problem might be in: 1 Python implementation you are using, 2 operating system and its kerneL, 3 tool you are using to monitor opened files. Add a comment. David David 4 4 silver badges 19 19 bronze badges. How to close file explicitly, right after using. David, you saw the with statements, didn't you? What you wrote about releasing the file descriptors only holds without the with stuff or explicitly closing.

Sorry, it's late here. I do think that it is similar to how it handles garbage collection. I recently ran into a problem when a python program I was making would run out of memory.

It turns out that when I was done with a variable and deleted it python didn't actually release the variable. It turns out that it only runs garbage collection every th object created.

This meant that I had to force it run garbage collection. It might be a similar issue since you aren't explicitly closing the file. David with does explicitly close the file! Show 2 more comments. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook. For example, to list all exe files opened from the shared folder :. The Close-SmbOpenFile cmdlet is used to close the open file handler.

You can close the file by ID:. The following script will list open files. You should use the built-in filters in the Out-GridView table to find open files for which you want to reset the SMB sessions.

Then you need to select the required files and click OK. As a result, the selected files will be forcibly closed. The following command will find the SMB session for the open file pubs. Confirm closing of the file by pressing Y. As a result, you have unlocked the file. Now other users can open it. For example, to reset all file sessions of the user mjenny , run this command:.

Any idea why the list of opened files would report invalidly? You can see from which computers the files in the shared network folder are open. Perhaps these are antivirus processes or something like that. Interesting piece of code using the Out-Gridview method. Problem with it though I discovered. I ran it on our server, and from a remote session after everyone had gone home. I selected a half dozen open files that were left open and that was out of about 20 or so.

It could be a huge problem, which, if not thought through, can cause the delay of updates, or errors in server maintenance. More common, but less extreme issues regarding this could come from users. Sometimes, in situations when users leave shared files open on their accounts, some other users, when opening the same file can experience error messages, and cannot access the same file.

The operations can be applied to Microsoft Windows Server systems , , and Windows 10 for workstations. There are a lot of working methods to deal with that kind of problems, first, one that we will describe is a usage of computer management:.

In a situation of locked files on the server, made by users, this method could come in handy to troubleshoot it. Use right click on start menu and select Computer Management or in start menu search type compmgmt. That should open the screen with a list of files that are detected as open, the user that opened it, possible locks, and mode that is opened in. It can be opened with a combination of keys ctrl, alt, del and choose Task Manager , or right-clicking on the taskbar then choose open task manager option.

If there is a process that you want to terminate, it can be done by simply right click on the process, and then choose End Process option. Another option is to open up the task manager, click the performance tab and then click Open Resource Monitor.

When Resource Monitor opens, it will show tabs, and one, needed for this operation is Disk. Resource monitor offers an overview of opened files paths and processes on the system, and with that pieces of information, it is not a problem to identify and close files or processes. There are more than one solutions with PowerShell scripts, and it is not recommended for administrators without experience in scripting. In situations where one, or small numbers of exact known open files should be closed, this cmdlet can be used.

This command does not close a single file, it applies to all opened files under the id of the specific session. The other variation of the same cmdlet is applying to a file name extension in this example DOCX.

The command will check for all opened files with DOCX extension on all system clients and it will force close it. As mentioned before, any unsaved data on open files, will not be saved. There are a lot more this cmdlet flags, and variations which allow applying a lot of different filters and different approaches to closing open files.

Our example script enables closing a file specified by path, that should be inserted In the script.