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Cannot delete clmoria: It is being used by another person or program.
Close any programs that might be using the file and try again.

The file is located on a flash drive I just recently purchased. There is no programs using the file. I have since restarted my computer, removed and reinserted the flash drive, and turned of XP indexing service. But still, I get this message. Does anyone know how to fix this? Or do I really have to go find my live linux cd for this?

Format the flash drive.

Q: My car has a puncture
A: Buy a new car

You shouldn't fix all problems by formatting everything when something goes wrong

Does your drive use autorun? If so, I think pressing shift while inserting the drive will bypass it. You can also open Task Manager before inserting the drive and see if any unusual programs get started and kill it manually.

You can also try Unlocker if you don't mind installing additional program.

Buy me a new car too. But not so many horse power that I never use it all.

Of course not. But this is an empty flash drive we are talking about. The lug nuts are seized, so the regular steps of changing a tire are not working.

I'd say find the process and kill it, but that might not be the issue. Likely the file was left locked or the mbr is buggered. For the amount of hassle to remove a singular file, a hammer and chisel(format) is quick and simple. Installing software or hunting processes is more work than a single file deserves. Excise the tumour. Cut it off.

I'd rather not format it. It's nowhere near empty. It has about 5gb of content on it and the file I want to delete is a mere 225kb

Ah my bad. Go with the other solutions then.

i dunno much about this, but last time that happened to me, it had to do with ownership

ask around about this, find out how you decide the ownership of certain files.

in my case "administrator" owned a certain file, NOT ME, even tho it was MY computer, i had to basically tell my computer "dude, I AM admin!" and then i was allowed to delete it.

Problem solved! Stuck it in my roommates laptop and I was able to delete the file no problem.

Sounds like permissions to me then.

I've run into some crazy permissions errors on flash drives.