oops memory!

[abc123]

okay, so I made a "while" loop on java:

while(x == true)
{
 //do things
}

and, like an idiot, forgot to set x to false anywhere...

now, inside this loop, it also happened to be writing to the disk and by the time i realized what was happening, bamn, i have a 125 meg html file

now, I CANNOT!!!! delete the damn thing
(the file)

I have restarted since, still no luck and infact i just COPIED the file somewhere, tried to delete the COPY and STILL on luck

I really am at a loss as of how to get rid of this thing and am quite amazed that somewhere it is still being accessed by a program.. i have no idea which one

can anyone help me out here?

[toe_cutter]

What OS?

Did you check permissions on file?

If windows you might be able to boot to DOS and delete it that way.

Of course you could always format.

Toe

[technobard]

If you're in some Windows flavor, try deleting the java.exe process. I've had similar problems (although not as severe).

Still, not being able to delete the copy is weird. What error message do you get?

[abc123]

im on windows xp

actually i can copy the file, but i cannot DELETE the copy of the file, which is really weird...

and i have no java.exe process running so i dont know what its problem is, maybe i will try booting into dos i guiess..

wish i had a prog to see what process was accessing certain files...