Does it always delete the file? If the file is in use (for instance, some process has it open - you perhaps, if you didn't close it) - it won't be able to be deleted, at least not without rebooting in between or killing the process that has it open.
Mm. This can also potentially be a problem in networks, I think, if the network is slow to either acknowledge the file is closed, or slow to understand it should be deleted. So if you're trying this with a file located on some kind of remote-mounted volume, you could be getting into trouble. Also if you're trying to write to something that the system, for whatever reason, wants to use, you could still be getting into trouble.
What kind of file are you writing, and what is its expected path and//or name?
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