[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I have been looking into making my file cleaning script more > intelligent. The goal of the script is to delete everything on a > drive except for a couple of folders which are skipped by the script. > Recently, I noticed that some files where not being deleted because a > process was using them.
Try this: try: # Make the file's attributes normal so file can be deleted. win32api.SetFileAttributes(os.path.join(root, f), win32con.FILE_ATTRIBUTE_NORMAL) # HKLM/SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Control/Session Manager/PendingFileRenameOperations win32api.MoveFileEx(os.path.join(root, f), None, win32con.MOVEFILE_DELAY_UNTIL_REBOOT) except Exception, e: print e Upon reboot the file will be gone... careful though, this canl delete any Windows system file too. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list