Introduction
This article is about the space allocation problem that is caused by running Crystal reports in ASP.NET. It is about the files created in temp folder of system.
Background
I stuck with the problem of space in Windows temp folder for quite sometime when I was running Crystal reports in my ASP.NET application. Whenever I run a Crystal report, some files are loaded into my server temp (c:\windows\temp) folder. When that folder reaches a certain capacity, "Load Report Failed" error occurs. When I try to delete these files manually from temp folder, it gives an error notice:
"File cannot be deleted. It is being used by another person or program…."
Using the Code
Whenever I run a Crystal report in my ASP.NET application, Crystal report file and some other files are created in temp folder. When that folder reaches a certain capacity, it gives "Load Report Failed" error.
When I try to delete those files manually from temp folder, they cannot be deleted and throw an error message:
"File cannot be deleted. It is being used by some other person or program.............."
The only way to delete those files is to reboot the system and delete the files manually which is of course not the desired solution.
Finally, to resolve this problem, I have added the following line of code into the finally
statement of the try catch
block. This will automatically delete the files from temp folder.
History
- 6th August, 2007: Initial post
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