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Ant is not able to delete some files on windows

Asked 2008-09-16T21:40:43.560
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I have an ant build that makes directories, calls javac and all the regular stuff. The issue I am having is that when I try to do a clean (delete all the stuff that was generated) the delete task reports that is was unable to delete some files. When I try to delete them manually it works just fine. The files are apparently not open by any other process but ant still does not manage to delete them. What can I do?

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I too had the same problem and was tried of manually deleting the build directories. Finally I solved it by renaming the .jar artifact of my project to a different name from project name itself. For ex: my project was portal and my ant built script use to generate portal.jar, where eclipse ant was not able to delete this portal.jar. When i changed my build.xml to generate my .jar as portalnew.jar, eclipse was able to delete this portalnew.jar next time. Hope this helps.

answered 2013-07-16T11:50:21.030

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