Please fix the LNK1201 error!

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Steve - 29 Dec 2005 19:16 GMT

I'm really tired of running into this error:

fatal error LNK1201: error writing to program database 'blah blah path.pdb';
check for insufficient disk space, invalid path, or insufficient privilege

When I try renaming or modifying the file in Windows Explorer I cannot so it
appears that the OS has an open handle on the file and won't let anyone
modify it. This is really an annoying bug because every time it happens I
have to reboot to get around it.

Please fix the bug or provide a tool to force the OS to release handles that
it incorrectly believes are open. I'm tired of the Visual Studio telling me
that it can't write to my poncho file because 40 free gigabytes isn't enough!

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Mikhail Arkhipov (Microsoft) - 30 Dec 2005 00:26 GMT

On 12/29/05 11:16, in article
3F15368B-3777-4532-8F12-249D39278632@microsoft.com, "Steve"

> I'm really tired of running into this error:
>
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> it incorrectly believes are open. I'm tired of the Visual Studio telling me
> that it can't write to my poncho file because 40 free gigabytes isn't enough!

PDB files are debugging information, they may get locked by a debugger once
in a while. Try quitting VS, then open Task Manager and look at the list of
processes. Check "show processes from all users". Verify that there are no
other devenv.exe running. If there are, terminate them. Look also at the
Users tab so see who else is logged on - I personally sometimes forget I
have left devenv.exe running in the terminal server session. Log off any
stale sessions that are disconnected. Also logging off and back on might
help.

You may also get a few utilities from www.sysinternals.com such as FileMon
( http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Filemon.html ) and see which
application is using the file.

Thanks
Mikhail Arkhipov (Microsoft)
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Please fix the LNK1201 error!

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