mscorlib: Access to the path is denied.

[Guest]

I'm tring to open a file using FileStream:
dim myFile As New FileStream(myPath, FileMode.Open)

It works on every file on FAT32 HDD fine.
But when I try to open a several files on NTFS drive I get this message:
'Access to the path " ... " is denied.'

Some files on NTFS are working fine.
I checked the permitions and I do have the permition to do everything with
this file or folder as I'm the administrator of this PC.

What am I doing wrong?

 

[Carlos J. Quintero [.NET MVP]]

If you are opening it for reading only, you should use the overloaded
constructor that receives a System.IO.FileShare param and pass it
System.IO.FileShare.Read, because by default is open for write and if 2
processes do the same, one of them denies access to the other:

public FileStream ( System.String path , System.IO.FileMode mode ,
System.IO.FileAccess access , System.IO.FileShare share )

 

[Guest]

Thanks it helped !

If you are opening it for reading only, you should use the overloaded
constructor that receives a System.IO.FileShare param and pass it
System.IO.FileShare.Read, because by default is open for write and if 2
processes do the same, one of them denies access to the other:

public FileStream ( System.String path , System.IO.FileMode mode ,
System.IO.FileAccess access , System.IO.FileShare share )


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