djwar Posted October 12, 2016 Share Posted October 12, 2016 Hi I keep getting this error when deleting roms from LB ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SentaiBrad Posted October 12, 2016 Share Posted October 12, 2016 It looks like LaunchBox is not getting the proper permissions to remove something? Are you the admin account? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djwar Posted October 12, 2016 Author Share Posted October 12, 2016 HI, brad Yes I am, this is my Pc. Im cleaning my arcade rom folder, out of 10 deleted games I get the error in at least 2 or more Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SentaiBrad Posted October 12, 2016 Share Posted October 12, 2016 The only other scenario that it could be is that the file is in use by another application. I would restart your PC and try to delete the file from within LaunchBox again, that way if something is using it right now, restarting will make sure that it should no longer be in use. If you happen to know what application is trying to use it, you can close that in the Task Manager of Windows and try again, but if we don't know a restart will be the simplest method. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djwar Posted October 13, 2016 Author Share Posted October 13, 2016 (edited) well is not only 1 game, Im deleting all games that I dont like.. what I do pretty much is, double click on the game, check whether I like or not, Esc on Kb to exit, delete and boom I get the error. I also tried restarting LB and deleting the same game I was having the error with, still the same, man ...I dont think any other app could be using the rom.zip, cause I only use LB to run my retro games... Unless, after exiting a game, it remains lock to LB Edited October 13, 2016 by djwar Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SentaiBrad Posted October 13, 2016 Share Posted October 13, 2016 Restart your PC and try to delete just the game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djwar Posted October 18, 2016 Author Share Posted October 18, 2016 On 10/13/2016 at 1:28 AM, SentaiBrad said: Restart your PC and try to delete just the game. I did that, same thing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FistyDollars Posted October 18, 2016 Share Posted October 18, 2016 (edited) Okay, silly question, but it's a thought: are you currently seeding your romset using a torrent client? Or do you have some form of auto-backup program that is monitoring your HDD? Either of those might cause that sort of an error. Edited October 18, 2016 by FistyDollars Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djwar Posted October 19, 2016 Author Share Posted October 19, 2016 On 10/13/2016 at 1:28 AM, SentaiBrad said: Restart your PC and try to delete just the game. and after restarting ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djwar Posted October 19, 2016 Author Share Posted October 19, 2016 4 hours ago, FistyDollars said: Okay, silly question, but it's a thought: are you currently seeding your romset using a torrent client? Or do you have some form of auto-backup program that is monitoring your HDD? Either of those might cause that sort of an error. Nope I dont use torrents for games and the only back up I have is, win 7 Backup and Restore...but that is only for C partition which is my OS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djwar Posted October 19, 2016 Author Share Posted October 19, 2016 (edited) Interesting..... Edited October 19, 2016 by djwar Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOS76 Posted October 19, 2016 Share Posted October 19, 2016 Go to the file in File Explorer and right click it and go to properties and then go to the security tab and look at the ownership of the file see if you can change it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djwar Posted October 20, 2016 Author Share Posted October 20, 2016 21 hours ago, DOS76 said: Go to the file in File Explorer and right click it and go to properties and then go to the security tab and look at the ownership of the file see if you can change it. I got win 7 btw, the owner is me, it has the name of my pc there This pc only has 1 user, the admin which is me, nobody else uses this Pc I checked several roms just in case and all of them has the same owner, and at least 1 out of 10 i tried to delete gets deleted... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djwar Posted October 27, 2016 Author Share Posted October 27, 2016 The issue persist, even after updating Lb, and is not with all mame roms just some. They all located in the same folder Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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