Error Trying to Save files in Expression Web

Question

Get this error off and on and it takes several times to save files ??

An error occurred while attempting to write file
The requested operation cannot be performed on a file with a user-mapped section open?

I have never had this problem previously

Answer 1

It generally indicates that another application or process is using the file you're working on. It can be caused by antivirus scanning or maybe a continuous backup writing to a drive. Try disconnecting from the net and disabling your AV, and see if that solves it.

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Ian Haynes

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Answer 2

Ian

I use carbonite back up and standard MS Security
So I can set Carbonite to back up every few hours

Thanks

Dave

Answer 3

Still not working, any help on this

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Dave R

Answer 4

I don't think we can tell you what is on your computer that is accessing the files.  (We'd have no way of knowing.)

Answer 5

I started getting this problem out of the blue when trying to save ordinary html files after editing with EW4. I had recently installed Copernic desktop search (because Windows Explorer file search doesn't work properly - can't find "center" as in "align="center"" in a dumb html file for example). As soon as I had removed Copernic, I could save my EW2 html files again. This happened on Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit. 

Back to square one finding another desktop file search program that works.