AW: Windows error 32

[Tiemo Hollmann TB]

Hi Richard,

I can't provide a solution but can tell, that I see from time to time the
same behavior, using innosetup. Everything is deleted, except the empty
appfolder. Innosetup even has a section to define objects to delete after
everything, but this doesn't works also from time to time. It is the same,
if you uninstall the app from the control panel or the uninstaller from the
appfolder. The people in the inno uselist say, it's a windows problem and
there is no solution what I can change in innosetup. So I gave up some time
and keep it like that, knowing that windows keeps so much trash behind it...

Tiemo

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: use-livecode-bounces at lists.runrev.com [mailto:use-livecode-
> bounces at lists.runrev.com] Im Auftrag von Richard Gaskin
> Gesendet: Samstag, 18. Dezember 2010 03:08
> An: How to use LiveCode
> Betreff: Windows error 32
> 
> I'm making an uninstaller for one of my apps on Windows, and
> everything's working swell except for one detail:
> 
> I can delete all files and folders related to the install with ease,
> but
> when I try to delete the application folder sysError returns 32, which
> means it's in use by another process.
> 
> Here's the setup:
> 
> The uninstaller works as we're required to do on Windows: when launched
> it makes a copy of itself into the temp folder, and launches that copy
> after which the original quits.  We have to do that because of course
> an
> app can't delete itself.  The copy has the UI that the user clicks to
> start the uninstall.
> 
> That copy in temp works great, and clears out everything, even the
> original uninstaller that launched it.
> 
> The one thing it can't do is delete the folder the app was originally
> in, which is in the Program Files directory, e.g.:
> 
>    C:\Program Files\MyApp\
> 
> It seems weird to me that I can so easily delete all the contents of
> that folder, even all the nested subfolders that were in it, yet not
> the
> folder itself.
> 
> And yes, I've checked: the folder is indeed empty.
> 
> Even weirder, I can open LC afterward and run this in the Message Box:
> 
>     delete folder "C:/Program Files/MyApp/"
> 
> ...and it deletes as expected without complaint.
> 
> My first hunch was that since the original uninstaller app is launching
> the one doing the deleting, maybe I could add another layer of
> misdirection by having a copy of that app make another app in temp just
> to delete the damn folder.  No go, same error 32.
> 
> Any of you come across something like this before?  How did you get
> around it?
> 
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