Detect orphan files after program crash

[Gunnar]

Are there any way of detecting that a program have crashed and left an
orphan file?
I have tried with the filesystemwatcher, but that didn't work.

Maybe I can use a polling strategy and keep polling the file and check if it
is locked. But can I do this without trying to open the file and catch
exeption.
Any suggestions are welcome?

Regards
Gunnar

 

[Ignacio Machin \( .NET/ C# MVP \)]

Hi,

Are there any way of detecting that a program have crashed and left an
orphan file?

What you mean with an orphan file?

Maybe I can use a polling strategy and keep polling the file and check if
it is locked. But can I do this without trying to open the file and catch
exeption.

If the file is locked then the program is still running.

You can check the process list to see if a program is running or not.

And no, AFAIK the only way to really know if you can open a file is trying
to open it and handling the exception