Need help...trouble with burning cds

Tamron SP AF 28-75mm f/2.8 XR Di for Canon

01/01/2007 09:43:23 PM · #1

I am trying to back up several months worth of photos and other information I'm putting on CDs. I am running into a frustrating problem that perhaps someone here can help with.

After copying the files onto cd, I get this message:

"Cannot delete (whatever file). It is being used by another person or program. Close any programs that might be using the file and try again."

This is what I get after the files have been burned onto CD, at the time when usually, the temporary files are then deleted from the cd burning area.

I cannot find any other progam using the files at the same time. It won't let me delete the files from the CD burning menu at all. I can restart the computer, and THEN open the cd drive and delete the temporary files.

What it boils down to is that for every cd I burn right now, I'm having to restart the computer, and then delete the files. I have to do it that way because otherwise the files remain on the computer "to be burned" area...and I can't get around having them there. I can add to it up to the cd capacity, but obviously that isn't a solution.

Any ideas? I am using Windows XP.

Canon EOS-20D

01/01/2007 09:53:35 PM · #2

I sometimes use Who Lock Me to find out what's using a file. It's generally Windows Explorer though and the only way I know of getting it to release a file is to reboot explorer. You can do that without actually rebooting the whole computer by ending it in your task menu and then doing run: explorer.exe. Maybe someone else has a better fix.

robs

Canon EOS R6 Mk II

Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0L IS

01/01/2007 09:54:40 PM · #3

Are they RAW files and you have the Microsoft RAW viewer installed?? If so there is a known issue with that and I believe that upgrading the RAW viewer fixes the issue now - otherwise uninstall it and see if it continues.

01/01/2007 09:58:16 PM · #4

Originally posted by robs:

No raw files at all. Just jpg mostly and then word documents and such. These are files currently on my hard drive. I'm trying to clear it off quite a bit and also back up a lot of things that I've gotten behind on. It's going to take forever this way though!

01/01/2007 10:11:16 PM · #5

I've downloaded the "Who lock me" but I have no idea how to use it? When I open it, it says no file named?

01/01/2007 10:13:15 PM · #6

Never mind...figured that part out. It does appear to be windows explorer.