Windows 7 Folder Renaming Bug

I am trying to organize my entire music collection but I have encountered a bug when attempting to rename some folders containing music. I am usually able to rename one folder before I get the error: "The action can't be completed because the folder or a file in it is open in another program". I've tried closing all programs, checking the task manager for open programs, restarting explorer.exe and rebooting. Nothing has worked and I still get the same error. I have no idea what to do next.

 

Hmm, haven't seen that.

Click Organize, layout, disable details pane...make a difference?

Also, Windows Media Player is no longer in memory, right?

 

Nope, that did not work and WMP is no longer in memory, heck I've rebooted just to make sure nothing was running in the background. The funny thing is, it's temperamental in it's behavior, sometimes it lets me rename and other times it doesn't with the same error in the same session.

This is so frustrating, I'm trying to organize my music now that I have the time during break!

 

Is media sharing enabled?

 

Yes it was, but I don't believe any other device was being used to access the media. Anyways, I thumbed with some sharing options and the problem appears to have been fixed.

I'm not quite sure of the cause, but I will continue to investigate since it could have indicated unauthorized access to my computer.

 

Do you have other WIndows 7 computers on the network?

 

well, the moment you tried to rename it, windows was accessing it. might be for media collecting, for indexing, for sharing, or just for checking which folder icon it should show.

that's why it happens only randomly. it only needs that access for a short time. you happen to hit a race condition, here. they're the devil of multi-threaded/multi-processed development.

you and windows at the same time want to do something different.

it can happen, but it shouldn't be often. is it often?

 

Appears to be fine at the moment, I suspect it was something to do with some media sharing service.

 

Check your services.msc, see if the Offline Files is started or offed.
Offline Files is important for Windows 7, unlike Windows Vista.
I got this problem when Offline Files is turned off.