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The process cannot access the file ... because it is being used by another process

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Applies to

  • ONTAP 9
  • CIFS

Issue

  • Client Error: The process cannot access the file <path to file> because it is being used by another process.
  • Identified file and client / process holding the conflicting lock via ONTAP CLI:

::> vserver locks show

​​​​​​​Note: How to identify filenames and clients locking files in ONTAP 9 - NetApp Knowledge Base

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