The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.

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Mads Dørup

24 Mar, 2015 04:15 PM

We have this issue where our build fails with the error "The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.". It happens on a lot of different files.

Here is a screenshot of the issue: https://www.dropbox.com/s/kznt3aofkdrdwll/Screenshot%202015-03-24%2017.06.45.png?dl=0

We get this message quite often. About 90% of the time, when our build fails it is because of this. I assume that this is a known issue with AppVeyour. Is that correct? Is there anything we might be able to do about it?

  1. Support Staff 1 Posted by Feodor Fitsner on 24 Mar, 2015 11:21 PM

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    Hi Mads,

    Do you have ".nuget" folder in your solution? If so, the try updating nuget.exe there to the latest version. It was a known issue in nuget.exe that was fixed in recent versions.

    -Feodor

  2. Ilya Finkelshteyn closed this discussion on 25 Aug, 2018 01:55 AM.

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