{"id":728,"date":"2017-12-18T13:55:51","date_gmt":"2017-12-18T11:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/itsimple.info\/?p=728"},"modified":"2017-12-18T13:55:51","modified_gmt":"2017-12-18T11:55:51","slug":"how-to-find-what-is-holding-files-or-folders-on-windows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/?p=728","title":{"rendered":"How to Find what is Holding files or Folders on windows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometime you need to some operation on file or folders like rename , delete , move ect &#8230; you can get an error &#8220;file is use&#8221; :<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-729\" src=\"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/file-is-open-300x203.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"536\" height=\"363\" srcset=\"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/file-is-open-300x203.png 300w, https:\/\/itsimple.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/file-is-open.png 462w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 536px) 100vw, 536px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Nice trick is to open &#8220;Resource monitor&#8221; -&gt;\u00a0 execute from run : <em>resmon.exe<\/em>\u00a0 (or right click on task bar -&gt; Task manager -&gt; Preformance TAB -&gt; &#8220;Open Resource Monitor&#8221; at the botton )<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-731\" src=\"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/ResouceMonitor-300x228.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"568\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/ResouceMonitor-300x228.png 300w, https:\/\/itsimple.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/ResouceMonitor-768x583.png 768w, https:\/\/itsimple.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/ResouceMonitor.png 799w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 568px) 100vw, 568px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On the &#8220;Associated Handles&#8221; there is a search windows, enter the name of the file or folder and click search, you will get the PID of the handler which holding the file or folder<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>Good Luck<\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometime you need to some operation on file or folders like rename , delete , move ect &#8230; you can get an error &#8220;file is use&#8221; : Nice trick is to open &#8220;Resource monitor&#8221; -&gt;\u00a0 execute from run : resmon.exe\u00a0 (or right click on task bar -&gt; Task manager -&gt; Preformance TAB -&gt; &#8220;Open Resource [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,14,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tutorials","category-windows","category-windows-server"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}