topic Re: Exception=System.IO.IOException: The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process. in QlikView

Exception=System.IO.IOException: The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.

Mon, 26 Jan 2026 18:19:17 GMT

Error: The sourcedocument failed to save.. Exception=System.IO.IOException: The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.

Error: at System.IO.__Error.WinIOError(Int32 errorCode, String maybeFullPath)

Error: at System.IO.File.Replace(String sourceFileName, String destinationFileName, String destinationBackupFileName, Boolean ignoreMetadataErrors)

Error: at QVBWrapper.Document.ReplaceSourceFile(ILogBucket logBucket, String replaceFromFileName, String replaceToFilename)

Error: at QVBWrapper.Document.Save(ILogBucket i_LogBucket, String i_SaveAsFileName)

Please some one help me..

Exception=System.IO.IOException: The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.

Tue, 04 Oct 2011 15:39:21 GMT

I am having the same issue, I am thinking it might be because I have a SAN replication between two drives and when the replication is occuring, the QlikView process can't access the file, which gives this error. Not sure if this is right, but I am investigating.

have you tried rasing this with QlikView support?

Exception=System.IO.IOException: The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.

vgutkovsky — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 16:24:40 GMT

A couple things to check:

In Task Manager on the server, show processes from all users and make sure there are no instances of QV.exe running. If an application is opened in QV Desktop, then it can't be saved when a reload is finished.
Make sure that the Publisher account has NTFS write access to the application. To be 100% sure everything is configured right, you can login to Windows as the Publisher account and just try saving the application in QV Desktop.

Regards,

Vlad

Exception=System.IO.IOException: The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.

Wed, 05 Oct 2011 17:03:08 GMT

A way to test if the file is indeed locked by a hung process, go to the source file and try renaming it to something like "Example.qvw" and if it allows it, then its not locked by QVB.exe, but being scanned at the time it is saving.

Adding to Vlad's comment, also make sure the QVB.exe processes have all stoppe as well. Note that if you kill those and its a QVB.exe from another job that is running, it will kill that job in publisher.

I had this issue a while back and it ended up being McAfee was locking the file because it was scanning it. Make sure McAfee has exceptions on your shared folders as well as the extensions (.qvw, .qvd, .pgo, etc).

Exception=System.IO.IOException: The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.

gargi_bardhan — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 09:54:03 GMT

Hi Scott,

Can you please tell other than the three extensions you mentioned what can be a possibility of getting encountered while antivirus is running? The tasks are randomly failing.

Thanks & Regards,

Gargi

Exception=System.IO.IOException: The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.

Mon, 19 Mar 2012 11:57:20 GMT

.log, .meta, and .shared. Log is the big one that can cause it. If you are logging any task details and mcafee locks it for use, it claims failure from being unable to write the log.

Let me know if that helped you.

Exception=System.IO.IOException: The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.

gargi_bardhan — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 12:08:18 GMT

Thanx for the quick reply Scott, lemme try, ya surely will let u knw.

Exception=System.IO.IOException: The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.

gargi_bardhan — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 05:57:13 GMT

Hi Scott,

After a long to-fro mail with IT , will test today by disabling Anti-virus scan , I wish it works.

Regards,

Gargi

Exception=System.IO.IOException: The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.

Fri, 06 Apr 2012 12:54:48 GMT

Good deal. You could just set exclusions of all file types of LOG, QVW, QVD, META, PGO and see if that works instead of disabling the entire virus scan.

Good luck!

Re: Exception=System.IO.IOException: The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.

gargi_bardhan — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 07:04:19 GMT

Thanx Scott for your continuous support,but I m again troubling U !

In log files I didnt get that particular error till now aftre diabling the Anti-Virus scan, but the task ended up with another like :

Could not print report. ErrorCode=TIME_OUT_ERROR

Can you tell what may be the reason?

Sending the log,

PFA,

Regards,

Gargi

Re: Exception=System.IO.IOException: The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.

gargi_bardhan — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 10:53:57 GMT

Hi Scott,

It seems no luck today, IT has disabled anti-virus scan to that Qliktech folder in the following path

"C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\QlikTech",

still getting the error named : System.IO.__Error.WinIOError .

So can I conclude that anti-virus scan is not the reason for the task failure ?

Any clue on this?

PFA the log file.

Regards,

Gargi

Re: Exception=System.IO.IOException: The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.

Mon, 09 Apr 2012 12:56:58 GMT

Yeah, that seems to be something else happening with the server. Once I set my antivirus to ignore the entire C:\QlikView folder and subfolders, it worked.

Sorry I couldnt help any further than that.

Re: Exception=System.IO.IOException: The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.

gargi_bardhan — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 05:01:13 GMT

Hi Scott,

Got a reply from support if that worked will let u knw.

Regards,

Gargi

Exception=System.IO.IOException: The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.

mellerbeck — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 21:56:51 GMT

I got the same error, no antivirus on my qlikview server. Any other thoughts.

Exception=System.IO.IOException: The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.

Thu, 19 Apr 2012 00:35:34 GMT

See if you can modify the file name. I have seen in the past where the file was locked by an unknown source. Usually I have to restart the server if that happens.

Exception=System.IO.IOException: The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.

Anonymous — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 18:22:19 GMT

Just to let everyone know, I received this error (Error Failed to generate QVW files.. Exception=System.IO.IOException: The process cannot access the file 'C:\ProgramData\QlikTech\DistributionService\1\temp\6d0fa150-8681-44cc-b7c4-718b7cbe8738\document.qvw' because it is being used by another process.) using V11 IR. The ultimate cause had to do with trying to apply a loop and reduce against a field that had possible AND NOT POSSIBLE values due to a one and only one selection. The loop and reduce would process the first 2 "possible" values fine, and then produce the error when it got to the "not possible" selection, instead of just skipping over to the next possible value. So we had to remove the one and only one selection to make it work.

Re: Exception=System.IO.IOException: The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.

gargi_bardhan — Fri, 04 May 2012 08:01:53 GMT

Hi Mellerbeck try the below setting:

1. In the Developer client, if you go to Help\About QlikView and then
right-click the logo in the lower left corner, you will receive a Settings
dialog where you can scroll down to the PDFPrintTimeoutInSeconds setting

and set the value to a higher value in seconds.

* *
2. OnServer level you will need to edit in the Settings.ini file located in C:\Documents
and Settings\Default User\Application Data\QlikTech\QlikViewBatch\ by
adding the PDFPrintTimeoutInSeconds=30 under the [Settings 7] tag
somewhere. There is no need to restart any services after adding this, as
the QVB process reads the Settings.ini every time a QVB process is

launched. *

Cant say surely but give a try! wish you luck !

Reagrds,

Gargi

Exception=System.IO.IOException: The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.

gargi_bardhan — Fri, 04 May 2012 08:08:46 GMT

Hi Phil!

It would be great if it works as I m still struggling to reason out of this issue for the last 2 mnths:

In my case I have to loop around the field "Ancestor_Id" wise which is in total 2334,so at the end I should get 2334 PDF's in the destination folder path mentioned in the publisher but how to proceed from your solution, can you please guide me? It succeeds some time & some time fails , that make me conclude there are 2334 possible values right, lemme knw if some way I m going wrong.

It will be great help if I succeed in resolving this issue !!

Thanks Phil,

Regards,

Gargi

Exception=System.IO.IOException: The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.

mellerbeck — Fri, 04 May 2012 16:33:28 GMT

Will this be the case even if I don't use PDF printing at all?

Exception=System.IO.IOException: The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.

mellerbeck — Fri, 04 May 2012 16:34:19 GMT

I'm not using any loops or reducing. It is not a consitant failure, it seems completely random, and happens to various random different qlikview while reloading on the portal.