Wednesday, March 18, 2015

The action can't be completed because the file is open in VMware Tools Service

For some reason I could not delete or overwrite two file in my build today.  I got the following error:

The action can't be completed because the file is open in VMware Tools Service

A Google search yielded nothing. However, I was able to fix it by doing the following steps:

  1. Disable the VMware Tools Service.
  2. Reboot the Win7 VM.
  3. Delete the offending files.
  4. Enable and start VMware Tools Service.

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