“ INTO OUTFILE ” statement terminated without completion locks the file

Question

i am creating a csv by using "INTO OUTFILE" statement for a mysql database. the database is huge 0.4 million records. i am using java program from eclipse to connect to mysql database and give this OUTFILE query. sometimes after running the query from program i do not want to wait for the whole query completion.so i terminate the java program from eclipse. but when i do this i find that the csv file is locked. i cant copy or delete it . i am using windows 7 . i close the eclipse application and find the csv file is still locked in the sense even as administrator i cant delete it. how can i unlock the csv file without having to restart the computer.

Answer 1

You could use unlocker to determine which application still holds a lock on the file and to remove that lock.