I have never seen this locking during compile, apart from PDF files. I
am using Therion extensively on Windows.
One case we found on Windows which had us stumped on a training course
we ran was that one Windows user found his PDF file was locked even
after apparently closing the Adobe reader. It
Hi Stacho,
It also looks to me as if there is a lock on some file. It is apparently
happening during the generation of small postscript elements (e.g.
data.4008). I am still trying to reproduce it in a consistent way.
But if nobody else is experiencing it, it might comes as well from my
This is really strange... I have experienced similar problem with PDF file
being locked, even it is not open in Adobe Reader.
It looks to me, that OS is reading somehow these files (to index them???)
and for a very small amount of time they are locked.
May be I am completely wrong, but without
Since I installed the last version of therion, metapost is randomly
bugging on writing temporary files with the message
"! I can't write on file `'. Please type another file name for input:"
As this is blocking therion, I have to kill the compilation windows and
retry. It usually reworks after a
