The /op switch is used to disconnect all open files with the supplied filename. Openfiles /disconnect /op 'pdftoclose.pdf' /id * Rather than developing new code, I decided to shell out of the program and use the openfiles command supplied as part of Windows. A decision was made to forcibly close the open connections to the file in question so that the regeneration of the PDF would succeed. Unfortunately, I didn’t have the luxury of time to refactor the system to account for this. If the status of the database changed requiring a new version of the PDF to be built, the process failed because it couldn’t write to the file due to the lock. The PDF files were then stored in a folder structure based on the database key.Ī problem arose when users of the system had opened the PDF and kept them open, holding a lock on the file. The server in question had a process which built, compiled and digitally signed PDF files based on certain database conditions and triggers. Working on a recent project, I needed a process to automate the closing of open PDF files on a Windows Server. Programmatically closing open files on a Windows server Programmatically closing open files on a Windows server

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