Read text file opened by another program

FinalBuilder Discussion
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Hi,

I am trying to read the content of a textfile using the Read Text File action. The file is opened for writing by another program. I get this error: Cannot open file "c:\logfile.txt". The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process

I know I can't write to a locked file, but I beleive that it should be possible to read from it - how can I do that?

Regards,

Rasmus Aaen
NNIT

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Hi Rasmus,

Here’s a new build of FinalBuilder which no longer requires a write lock on the file when reading using the ‘Read Text File’ action. This will allow you to read text files that are currently in use by another process as long as the other process did not open the file in exclusive or deny read mode.

URL: https://www.finalbuilder.com/downloads/finalbuilder/620/FB620_1463.exe

Regards,
Paul.

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Great - I’ll try that out.

Regards,
Rasmus