Unable to delete file... jar

Hi there guys.
I am unable to get ant to delete or rename any jar file.
I keep getting "Unable to delete file...."
As a test, I put a jar file in a folder, and made a single ant target that must delete that file, but it can't.
Why? I'm not referencing that jar anyware else.
It's driving me nuts.
Pleas help if you can.
Thanx much.

I'm not referencing that jar anyware else.

Are you absolutely sure? Assuming you are on Windows, try searching for anything which has a handle to the jar file (using a process explorer - sysinternals.com has a good one). I bet you'll find something else has a reference to it - IDE's for example often keep an active reference to jars.
[ March 11, 2004: Message edited by: john smith ]

Hi John.
Well, I don't know.
I check out my file name in File Monitor, and got a couple of million listings for it.

Something to note, when I give the jar a different extension, like tmp, all works fine. The very same file, it just doesn't end with .jar.
I run ant from within my IDE, JCReater 3.
I'll try running it from a command line and see what happens.

Same thing from command prompt.
Something somehow must be referencing it, just not sure how to figure it out.

Other common thing to watch out for are Virus Scanners (particularaly as you only seem to get this with jar files). Try and find out which PIDs are associated with the reference.

Will check it out. Thanx John.