Deleted files return

Hi,
when I delete files in Windows Explorer on Win7x64, NC2SP3IR5 on a mapped share (NSS, SLES10SP3, OES2SP3), some of them (depends on the folder) return immediately, which I can see when I hit F5.
If I delete them in console on the server, they don't return.
How can I delete them permanently from the Windows workstation?
Is there a way to disable this behaviour?
Michael

Originally Posted by peterkuo
> lsof shows that "ndsd" holds this file open, but I have no idea on how to change that.
Does this file happen to have numerics for its name? Chances is that its either a login script file or is being called via the login script and its got, somehow, "permanently" held opened. Generally in such cases, short of restarting ndsd there isn't much of an option. Of course, needs to determine how it is used would be a starting point of preventing it from happening again.
Yes, there are numerics in its name ("PDFXVwer_2.5.214.1.exe"). They are windows .exe setup files, so no login script or sth. like that is using it.
If I keep on trying to delete, it may work then.

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Jus chk out this:
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myFile.delete();

How about the return value from your delete call, is it "true"? What happens when you try to delete the file via your OS? Why do you seem to think that this behavior is specific to certain file extensions? Which extensions are you having trouble with?
Sorry for all the questions. Just as a guess, I think the most common reason for a delete call not to work on a Windows box is because the file is in use by some other program - an editor, or maybe a web server. Trying to delete the file via the OS might give you a better idea of why it's not deleting.
good luck
Lee

I need help with Tiger 10.4.11 saving / deleting files on a Win 2003 Server

Some of my Mac users are experiencing extremely slow file saves to my Windows Server 2003 server. It is not specific to file types. Illustrator, Quark all take forever and the file size is not the issue either. They are also having to force quit Finder after attempting to delete files from the Server.
I have found that if they boot into Safe Boot they can delete the files without a problem. As soon as I do a normal login the problem returns.
The problem seems to be specific to the machine. If user A logs on to her Mac she has problems deleting files from the server. If she logs into a Mac that isn't having problems (using her login) she doesn't have problems. If User B who has no problems on her Mac logs into User A's Mac then User B will have the same problems.
In order to rebind the Mac to the Active Directory I had to remove the Mac from AD. So I don't think it's the Computer's SID. I even tried unbinding the Mac, changing it's name and then Binding it to AD. Same problems.
I thought it was the Mac and just wasted a day wiping the Mac and reinstalling everything on it, but when I went to delete a file from the Server, finder locked up and I had to force quit finder.
I even changed the IP Address of one of the Macs having problems, but that didn't work either.
I've done a Permission repair as well with no change.
Anyone help?

OK, there was a System Events in the System Preferences>Accounts>Login Items, but after removing it and restarting I still had to force quit finder after attempting to delete some files off of the server.
I do not have (or can't find) the /private/var/run/startupitems.
The Library/StartupItems has 2 entries: AdobeVersionQueCS2 and IntegoCommon, both of which I removed the other day and tried to delete files after rebooting with the usual (not good) result.
In the System/Library/StartupItems there are 16 items. I will list them as I am not sure what shouldn't be there. I believe that they should all be from Apple though:
Apache
AppleShare
AuthServer
CrashReporter
Disks
FibreChannel
IFCStart
IPServices
Metadata
NetworkTime
NFS
NIS
PrintingServices
RemoteDesktopAgent
SNMP
Thanks for your help so far.

Problem In Deleting file

When I call fileone.exists()
It is returning true.
But I am unable to delete file even after calling fileone.delete();
There are some tabs in Swings. From deletion tab I am trying to delete. But I am unable to delete.
I tried to delete the same file from a simple Java file I am able to delete it.
Is there any lock preventing me from deleting the file ?
Any help is appreciated.............

As you can see in many threads, people talks about a bug in some JVM implementations preventing files to be deleted even if you have closed any stream related to it. I tried many times to delete files to no success until I read some posts advising to use the System.gc() method to destroy any object previously closed (but presumably still existing).
I tried
System.gc();
for(File iterator: arrayOfFiles)
iterator.delete();
but the result I obtained wasn't totally satisfactory, because the first files from the array of files weren't delete while the last ones were. So I thought that maybe the problem is the garbage collector had no time to "act" before the first files were deleted. My (not quite elegant, but effective) solution was to introduce a delay of 500ms between the garbage collector request and the first delete statement. I know you have no warranty about the garbage collector acting when you ask it to, but... Anyway, this is my code:
System.gc();
Thread.sleep(500); // delay to allow the garbage collector to do its work before any deletion is attempted
for(File iterator: arrayOfFiles)
iterator.delete();
As I could see, it works 100% the times I tested it.
I don't know if this "solution" was mentioned before or not but, in either case, I hope this helps someone.
Regards

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