File unlocking

[Innovative]

I've seen some applications on the net that 'unlock' files even if some other programs are using the file to solve "Access is denied!" problems..

Is that possible in autoit ?

[Triblade]

I don't think that kind of thing is possible AutoIt native.

I've been looking into Dll calls in the kernel32.dll for:

DuplicateHandle

CloseHandle

And maybe one or two more I can't remember.

I've never done dllcalls before, so I failed miserly this time ofcourse.

Maybe you or someone else dares to go there?

Edit: Type...

P.S.

I also just saw this tread:

http://www.autoitscript.com/forum/index.ph...&hl=dllcall

Might be very interresting in this case!

Edited August 8, 2008 by Triblade

[Innovative]

Any others have any other solution for this ?

[DMEE]

The way I know that other applications delete open files is by adding them to a list that should be deleted on next startup. You can write an autoit script to run on startup that will delete the file when it is not open anymore or at the next startup (save the filename(s) in a temp file).

Unlock is also sometimes possible by removing the read-only attribute see the help on FileSetAttrib

[Tlem]

Maybe you can take a look here :

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb530725.aspx

http://www.autoitscript.com/forum/index.ph...&pid=512020

[someone]

Hey FYI... http://www.autoitscript.com/forum/index.ph...c=69047&hl=

That conversation was only a little while ago. Not sure if he doesn't want to see it included in the autoit installer or even in example scripts.