Indexing - Does it lock files?

When a file is being indexed, does the access of the indexer prevent the
file from being deleted - or otherwise constrain basic file operations?

(For interest, if not, how does it work?)

(Justification - trying to work out why I am sometimes unable to delete MS
Word documents that are not in use... and Word also closed)

All thoughs appreciated

Julian

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"Julian" <> wrote in message
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> When a file is being indexed, does the access of the indexer prevent the
> file from being deleted - or otherwise constrain basic file operations?
>
> (For interest, if not, how does it work?)
>
> (Justification - trying to work out why I am sometimes unable to delete MS
> Word documents that are not in use... and Word also closed)
>
> All thoughs appreciated

I get that because I am running an auto backup program.. it copies stuff
automatically to a network device.
If I try and delete something before it has done the backup it can say the
file is busy.
Do you run any similar program?

I use SyncToy (1.4 excellent product from MS - V2 in beta...) but entirely
manually so I am 99.9% certain it's not that...

Good thought though...

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Some Vista stuff, but mostly just Stuff at http://berossus,blogspot.com
"dennis@home" <> wrote in message
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> "Julian" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>> When a file is being indexed, does the access of the indexer prevent the
>> file from being deleted - or otherwise constrain basic file operations?
>>
>> (For interest, if not, how does it work?)
>>
>> (Justification - trying to work out why I am sometimes unable to delete
>> MS Word documents that are not in use... and Word also closed)
>>
>> All thoughs appreciated
>
> I get that because I am running an auto backup program.. it copies stuff
> automatically to a network device.
> If I try and delete something before it has done the backup it can say the
> file is busy.
> Do you run any similar program?