Permissionerror: [Winerror 32] the Process Cannot Access the File Because It Is Being Used by Another Process

PermissionError: [WinError 32] The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process

Your process is the one that has the file open (via im still existing). You need to close it first before deleting it.

I don't know if PIL supports with contexts, but if it did:

import os
from PIL import Image

while True:    
    img_dir = r"C:\Users\Harold\Google Drive\wallpapers"
    for filename in os.listdir(img_dir):
        filepath = os.path.join(img_dir, filename)
        with Image.open(filepath) as im:
            x, y = im.size
        totalsize = x*y
        if totalsize < 2073600:
            os.remove(filepath)

This will make sure to delete im (and close the file) before you get to os.remove.

If it doesn't you might want to check out Pillow, since PIL development is pretty much dead.

Exception has occurred: PermissionError [WinError 32] The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process:

From the comments it is clear that you're either not sharing the code causing the actual problem, or making more changes than was suggested in the comments.

Take this:

from shutil import copy
from os import remove
import moviepy.video.io.VideoFileClip as VideoFileClip

copy('test.mp4', 'new_test.mp4')
stock_footage = VideoFileClip.VideoFileClip(r'new_test.mp4', target_resolution=(1080, 1920))
try:
    remove('new_test.mp4')
except PermissionError:
    print('as expected')
stock_footage .close()
try:
    remove('new_test.mp4')
    print('success')
except PermissionError:
    print('you will not see this')

Output (assuming you have a test.mp4 in the same location as the script):

as expected
success

Which shows that VideoFileClip locks the file it opens and calling .close() on it resolves the issue.

Python WinError 32 The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process

Your script starts by doing

os.chdir(pdfPath)

so the process running your script is the one holding the pdfPath directory, and preventing it from being removed by shutil.move. Just do a chdir somewhere else before moving it, for example:

chdir("C:/Users/xxx/Desktop/pdf2jpg/")
if os.path.exists(jpgPath):
    ...

PermissionError: [WinError 32] The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process: after installing python-certifi-win32

I ran into the same issue today. I corrected it by removing two *.pth files that were created when I had installed python-certifi-win32. This prevents python-certifi-win32 from loading when python is run.

The files are listed below, and were located here:

C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\Lib\site-packages

Files:

python-certifi-win32-init.pth
distutils-precedence.pth

Removing these files allowed me to install/uninstall other modules.

How to tackle this python error - PermissionError: [WinError 32] The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process:

NamedTemporyFile returns an open file object but you try to open it a second time with open(tempfile.name,"w") as temp_file. You had a bug in your for loop (closing the files per row written). So,

import csv
import shutil
from tempfile import NamedTemporaryFile
import os

class csvtest():

    def editcsv1(self,filename):  
        filename="data.csv"
        with NamedTemporaryFile(dir=r"C:\Users\Sahil\Desktop\python",
                mode="w", delete=False) as tempfile:
            with open(filename,"r") as csvfile2:
                reader=csv.reader(csvfile2)
                writer=csv.writer(tempfile)
                writer.writerows(reader)
        shutil.move(temp_file.name,filename)
        os.remove(f.name)

abc=csvtest()
abc.editcsv1(filename)

Getting Python error --PermissionError: [WinError 32] The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process

It's quite possible that pd.read_csv isn't properly closing the file since it is crashing mid read, I would try opening the file yourself so that in the except your own program is definitely closing the file and this may fix your issue.

import traceback
import pandas as pd
try:
   with open('CBD_BU_FULL.csv', "r") as f:
       df = pd.read_csv(f, encoding='UTF-8', dtype=str)
   df = df.assign(FILE_TYPE ='BU')
   data = df.to_json(orient = "records", lines=False).split('\n')
   print(data)

except:
   traceback.print_exc(1)
   os.rename('CBD_BU_FULL.csv', '/Errored/CBD_BU_FULL.csv')

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