How to avoid Remove-Item PowerShell errors "process cannot access the file"?
- by Michael Freidgeim
We are using TfsDeployer and PowerShell script to remove the folders ising Remove-Item
before deployment of a new version.
Sometimes the PS script failed with the error
Remove-Item : Cannot remove item Services\bin: The process cannot
access the file Services\bin' because it is being used by another proc
Get-ChildItem -Path $Destination -Recurse | Remove-Item
<<<< -force -recurse + CategoryInfo :
WriteError: (C:\Program File..\Services\bin:DirectoryInfo)
[Remove-Item], IOException FullyQualifiedErrorId :
RemoveFileSystemItemIOError,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.RemoveItemCommand
I’ve tried to follow the answer from PowerShell remove force to pipe get-childitem -recurse into remove-item.
get-childitem * -include *.csv -recurse | remove-item
,but the error still happens periodically. We are using unlocker to manually kill locking application, (it’s usually w3wp), but I prefer to find automated solution.
Another (not ideal) option is to-suppress-powershell-errors
get-childitem -recurse -force -erroraction silentlycontinue
Any suggestions are welcome.
