With 3.07 .dash.m4v left behind

Nick Payne nick.payne at internode.on.net
Tue Dec 5 11:27:10 PST 2017


On 5/12/2017 9:44 PM, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> Hi Nick,
>
>> I assume this is meant to be deleted once the conversion to mp4 has
>> been completed, but this isn't happening consistently.
>>
>> OS is Windows 10 x64.
> Does Windows allow a file to be deleted if a process still has it open?
> Unix does.  Perhaps this is another manifestation of my guess in
> http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/get_iplayer/2017-November/011371.html
> that got no replies, e.g. by people that know Windows and can track what
> files are open when.
In that previous case (temp file not able to be renamed) a permissions
error appears on the console. In this case no problem is indicated at all.



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