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bjornliow
New Contributor III
6 months 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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Jasper
New Contributor II
24 days ago

A similar error message can also come up when you're downloading & opening an (Excel) file and (another) file with the same name is already open in Excel. E.g. a file open navigation action on a dashboard button.

Can be a bit confusing as it shows up as a OneStream error, but it's really an Excel error.