shutil.move when in use?

[nicstel]

Hi,

I have created a script to move some files(pdf) from a directory to another one, but when the file that I want to move is in use it automaticaly copy the file to the new destination. I don't want to copy the file. There is a way to not move and copy the file when is in use?

here is part of my script.

            for DefaultUserName in Final_MoveToRightPerson_Dict:
                for DrawingName in Final_MoveToRightPerson_Dict[DefaultUserName]:
                    try:
                        if DrawingName in ExistingCopy_List:
                            ShopDrawingExisting_Module(DrawingName)
                        else:
                            
                            Old_PATH = ShopDrawingControl_PATH + "#1 First Copy/" + str(DrawingName)
                            New_PATH = ShopDrawingControl_PATH + "#4 User List/" + str(DefaultUserName) + "/To Check/" + str(DrawingName)
                            try:
                                shutil.move(Old_PATH, New_PATH)
                                Continue = True
                            except:pass
                            DrawingInformation_Module(DrawingName, "Move To Check", str(UserList_listbox.Get()))
                    except:pass

Thank You

[bvdet]

Assuming you are in Windows, there is no way to do that with Python.

[nicstel]

Yes I am on windows. To fix my problem, I will try to read if I have any doubled files and if yes I will delete the one that it is not in use.

Thanks

Nicolas