filelocksmith 0.1.1

Detect what processes are locking a file or folder on Windows
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filelocksmith-rs

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Reliably find and quit processes that are locking a file or folder on Windows. This is a difficult problem to solve on Windows, as the OS does not provide a built-in or straight-forward way to do this.

This library wraps the FileLocksmith module from the PowerToys project, which is written in C++. The implementation in PowerToys is endorsed by Microsoft and is very robust.

Installing

[dependencies]

filelocksmith = "0.1"

Usage

use filelocksmith::{find_processes_locking_path, quit_processes, pid_to_process_path};

let path = "C:\\path\\to\\file.txt";
let pids = find_processes_locking_path(path);

// print paths of processes locking the file
for pid in &pids {
   println!("[{}] {:?}", pid, pid_to_process_path(*pid));
}

// quit the processes locking the file
if quit_processes(pids) {
 println!("Processes quit successfully");
}