Guest E. Barry Bruyea Posted October 2, 2007 Posted October 2, 2007 I was doing my weekly back-up and when I went to copy my "Documents And Settings" folder from the C: drive, I got a message that the folder cannot be copied because NTUSER: was being used by another program. I have never seen this come up before, so I closed all other programs, rebooted, checked to see nothing else was running and tried again but got the same message. I have copied this folder before with no problem. Anyone have an idea what's going on?
Guest Patrick Keenan Posted October 3, 2007 Posted October 3, 2007 Re: NTUSER: ???? "E. Barry Bruyea" <noemail@scam.com> wrote in message news:1ej5g3d48h28igtb674fr9momia2ojf9p9@4ax.com... >I was doing my weekly back-up and when I went to copy my "Documents > And Settings" folder from the C: drive, I got a message that the > folder cannot be copied because NTUSER: was being used by another > program. I have never seen this come up before, so I closed all other > programs, rebooted, checked to see nothing else was running and tried > again but got the same message. I have copied this folder before with > no problem. Anyone have an idea what's going on? ntuser (or ntuser.dat) is a system file that's used and locked by XP itself during your logged in session. Have you changed settings so that this file is now visible? If so, check your backup software for settings to deal with this, perhaps exclude it. HTH -pk
Guest E. Barry Bruyea Posted October 3, 2007 Posted October 3, 2007 Re: NTUSER: ???? On Tue, 2 Oct 2007 22:54:00 -0400, "Patrick Keenan" <test@dev.null> wrote: >"E. Barry Bruyea" <noemail@scam.com> wrote in message >news:1ej5g3d48h28igtb674fr9momia2ojf9p9@4ax.com... >>I was doing my weekly back-up and when I went to copy my "Documents >> And Settings" folder from the C: drive, I got a message that the >> folder cannot be copied because NTUSER: was being used by another >> program. I have never seen this come up before, so I closed all other >> programs, rebooted, checked to see nothing else was running and tried >> again but got the same message. I have copied this folder before with >> no problem. Anyone have an idea what's going on? > >ntuser (or ntuser.dat) is a system file that's used and locked by XP itself >during your logged in session. > >Have you changed settings so that this file is now visible? If so, check >your backup software for settings to deal with this, perhaps exclude it. > >HTH >-pk Exactly what do you mean by 'Logged In Session"? Online?
Guest Patrick Keenan Posted October 4, 2007 Posted October 4, 2007 Re: NTUSER: ???? "E. Barry Bruyea" <noemail@scam.com> wrote in message news:frk6g3lp7rr032f5im4274qj2b6la63euk@4ax.com... > On Tue, 2 Oct 2007 22:54:00 -0400, "Patrick Keenan" <test@dev.null> > wrote: > >>"E. Barry Bruyea" <noemail@scam.com> wrote in message >>news:1ej5g3d48h28igtb674fr9momia2ojf9p9@4ax.com... >>>I was doing my weekly back-up and when I went to copy my "Documents >>> And Settings" folder from the C: drive, I got a message that the >>> folder cannot be copied because NTUSER: was being used by another >>> program. I have never seen this come up before, so I closed all other >>> programs, rebooted, checked to see nothing else was running and tried >>> again but got the same message. I have copied this folder before with >>> no problem. Anyone have an idea what's going on? >> >>ntuser (or ntuser.dat) is a system file that's used and locked by XP >>itself >>during your logged in session. >> >>Have you changed settings so that this file is now visible? If so, check >>your backup software for settings to deal with this, perhaps exclude it. >> >>HTH >>-pk > > Exactly what do you mean by 'Logged In Session"? Online? No, logged in to the PC as a user. If you are using the system, you are logged in, regardless of whether or not you have a password. HTH -pk
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