I need to delete a certain excel file created by another program, the problem is the other program has it locked. Is there a way to delete it, or even delete all records inside of it?? Please help this is urgent.
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I need to delete a certain excel file created by another program, the problem is the other program has it locked. Is there a way to delete it, or even delete all records inside of it?? Please help this is urgent.
Goto the task process and Kill the process that has the lock, then you can delete the file.
can it be cleared instead?
If you kill the process then you kill the program that has it locked. That wouldn't work. The software that has it locked is a mapping system for gps. It uses excel to store the coords in. I need to have it open the file, clean it out, and close it.
You can't make changes to a file that is locked by another process. You will need to shut down the GPS app before you can do anything with the file.