×
INTELLIGENT WORK FORUMS
FOR ENGINEERING PROFESSIONALS

Log In

Come Join Us!

Are you an
Engineering professional?
Join Eng-Tips Forums!
  • Talk With Other Members
  • Be Notified Of Responses
    To Your Posts
  • Keyword Search
  • One-Click Access To Your
    Favorite Forums
  • Automated Signatures
    On Your Posts
  • Best Of All, It's Free!
  • Students Click Here

*Eng-Tips's functionality depends on members receiving e-mail. By joining you are opting in to receive e-mail.

Posting Guidelines

Promoting, selling, recruiting, coursework and thesis posting is forbidden.

Students Click Here

Jobs

Lockfiles and backups - no good

Lockfiles and backups - no good

Lockfiles and backups - no good

(OP)
Hi all.

We are working on Inv. 8 using semi-isolated multi-user projects (with Check-out / Check in), and we are having a problem making live backups.

When we use Windows Explorer to copy and paste all our work ( .ipt, .iam, .idw etc.) to a removable hard drive, we get the following message:

"Error: lockfile.lck - Portions of this file are busy or in use by another process"

This stops the copy operation, and thus the backup, dead in its tracks.  The files are hidden, I believe, because they do not appear in the folders.  We  would like to exclude them manually if possible from the backup set, or we might have to go to a "backup" program, which I'm not too crazy about, given the format of the backup data.

Any help would be appreciated.

tg

Red Flag This Post

Please let us know here why this post is inappropriate. Reasons such as off-topic, duplicates, flames, illegal, vulgar, or students posting their homework.

Red Flag Submitted

Thank you for helping keep Eng-Tips Forums free from inappropriate posts.
The Eng-Tips staff will check this out and take appropriate action.

Reply To This Thread

Posting in the Eng-Tips forums is a member-only feature.

Click Here to join Eng-Tips and talk with other members!


Resources