# Partially deleted file won't delete

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/partially-deleted-file-wont-delete/198891>\
**Category:** random\
**Created:** [August 29, 2006, 2:07pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/partially-deleted-file-wont-delete/198891 "2006-08-29T14:07:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![Fargate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/dbc845/32.png) [@Fargate](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Fargate)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2006, 2:07pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/partially-deleted-file-wont-delete/198891/1 "2006-08-29T14:07:07Z")

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(I use Windows XP Home Edition)

Ok this is the most bizarre instance of a undeletable file I have ever seen…new computer absolutley no problems. Anyways I was downloading the latest version of iTunes when I had to restart it no doubt because I was overstraining it I was just curious how many task it could do it once. Anyways this normally wouldn’t be a problem…so I went to delete the partially downloaded iTunes setup file on my desktop. It had been turned into a standard win32 application as it was not applicable as anything else. But every time I try and delete it, it gives the standard cannot delete because in use by another person or program. And this is a partial iTunes file…by no means a questionable source. And I certainly have no trouble deleting other files :huh:. I even tried deleting it by means of the command prompt. Making my directory my desktop and then running del iPodSetup.exe

That however also generates a similar message, saying That the process cannot access the file because it is being accessed by another process.

What other process could possibly be accessing a partially downloaded iTunes file Ⓜ !?!

My suspicion is it has to do with explorer from what I’ve read, but not really sure how I’d get around that.

Thanks,

Fargate 🙂