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bjornliow
New Contributor III
4 days ago

Cannot access the file because it is being used by another process

I'm trying to export data via a Data Management step. I am running into frequent errors stating:  Error processing Data Management Step '[DM STEP NAME]'. Unable to create or open file '[FILE PA...
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MarcusH
Valued Contributor
4 days ago

The DM jobs write files to the FileShare which is a folder on your OS server. I have had this error when another user had the file open (Excel file) when the process was being executed. I don't think this would be a problem for text files. Might be worth checking.

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    bjornliow
    New Contributor III
    3 days ago

    I've renamed the file and have tried with overwriting existing files set to True/False. I'm the only one accessing this file and I've made sure to close them before running the DM step. Still no luck.