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You don't in some way have it open do you? If so, it will probably be locked and therefore not deletable. The same goes if a vm has a file handle to it, e.g. if your first (successful) attempt still has a handle to it. You could check that scenario with the OS. What OS is it? If Windows (I see SQL Server in the topics) then <a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/handle" rel="ugc">https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/handle</a>&nbsp;would be useful
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And for tasks like yours especially, your code should be - if it isn’t already - ensured by TWR.
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 The problem we were facing is that the file was not getting deleted,
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I'm confused. This is what you said when you posted the question:<br />

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The program is able to delete the file the first time it runs but fails to delete it in subsequent triggers.
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I'm confused also and have been trying to gain more clarity.
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I'm not going to make any further comment on this question, nor on any subsequent questions &nbsp;that you might post. But &nbsp;great that you have found some unconventional logic to solve your issue, because that's what unfortunately puts me in the impossible position of not understanding your issues.<br><br><br>
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Are you actually trying to delete a file downloaded from the web in some kind of download directory?
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cehj, yes, the file was being saved on the desktop
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Well then, yes, the file will get renamed, but only if it already exists. You should of course check the return value from File.delete
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We have a java program that is scheduled to run every hour using the quartz library.<br>Even after closing all input and output streams to that file, the function file.delete() is not working.<br>The file in question is named data.csv.<br>It lives on the desktop and has a header row consisting of 49 columns and approximately 202,700 rows.<br>The program is able to delete the file the first time it runs but fails to delete it in subsequent triggers.<br><br><br><br>
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We have a java program that is scheduled to run every hour using the quartz library.
Even after closing all input and output streams to that file, the function file.delete() is not working.
The file in question is named data.csv.
It lives on the desktop and has a header row consisting of 49 columns and approximately 202,700 rows.
The program is able to delete the file the first time it runs but fails to delete it in subsequent triggers.

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