rcabe problem

[Kenneth Brody]

On 5/1/2013 4:37 PM, Ian Wood wrote:
> I've had this happen with dreport both prior to my upgrade from 5.014 to
> 5.7.3 and after.  When I look in the \fp folder, there is a dreport.exe at
> 2893KB and a second dreport.exe with a length of zero.  After I delete the
> zero length dreport.exe, I no longer get the comspec error.

How did you end up with two identical filenames in the same directory?

Is it possible that you have "hide extensions for known file types" enabled, 
and one was ".exe" and the zero-length one was ".com" or ".bat"?  (Windows 
comes with that setting turned on by default.)

     http://blog.runonfriday.com/2010/08/dont-hide-file-extensions/

> On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 4:22 PM, Richard Kreiss <rkreiss at gccconsulting.net>wrote:
>
>> Lately I have been running into a problem with Rcabe on my Windows 7 (64
>> bit) system.
>>
>> I will exit out of the program and when I try to go back into it, I get
>> the following windows error:
>>
>> CreateProcess() failed 32(0x00000020)
>> comspec="(null)"
>> command="t:\fp5611\fp\rcabe !!  -t 500000
>>               "
[...]
>> When I run Rcabe from the command prompt I get:
>>
>> The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another
>> process.
>>
>> Anyone know why I should be getting either of these error messages?

I've never seen that error on an executable, since multiple people can 
certainly run the same program, or one person run multiple instances.

Is it possible that your anti-virus program is currently scanning that 
executable, and prevents you from running it during the scan?

There is a program called "WhoLockMe" which is supposed to be able to show 
you why you are getting a "file in use" error.  (Though it's described more 
towards the "you can't delete the file because..." scenario.)  I've never 
used it myself, but I've heard good things from those who have:

     http://www.majorgeeks.com/WhoLockMe_d4429.html

-- 
Kenneth Brody