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Go inside the steam folder and start deleting folders and files until you find the offending open files.

You could also try OpenedFilesView. This will show all opened files in your system and to which running process they belong.

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Sorry to be so flippant, but I assumed the top post would have answered your question. There are utilities that list what file are opened/locked by which program.

A quick search took me here

Hope this is helpful.

Alternatively, there is a more native, but techy way to do this. Look for microsoft sysinternals suite and download it. This gives you a multitude of stuff to help you look under the bonnet in windows. The 'handle' utility in there lists all running apps and the files they have open. You will need to run this in a command prompt window. To view the output in a more readable way, direct the command 'handle' output to a text file.

EDIT: Added techy part

http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/opened_files_view.html

Description

OpenedFilesView displays the list of all opened files on your system. For each opened file, additional information is displayed: handle value, read/write/delete access, file position, the process that opened the file, and more...

Optionally, you can also close one or more opened files, or close the process that opened these files. This utility is especially useful if you try to delete/move/open a file and you get one of the following error messages:

Cannot delete [filename]: There has been a sharing violation. The source or destination file may be in use. Cannot delete [filename]: It is being used by another person or program. Close any programs that might be using the file and try again.

When you get one of these error messages, OpenedFilesView will show you which process lock your file. Closing the right process will solve this problem. optionally, you can also release the file by closing the handle from OpenedFilesView utility. However, be aware that after closing a file in this way, the program that opened the file may become unstable, and even crash.

Many other useful tools on web site

OpenedFilesView is probably the easiest. Run it, sort by path, you'll see any files on your drive that are in use by a process. You can then terminate the relevant process and eject the drive.

Yup, that would explain why Deluge can't do anything with the move. In the case it's Deluge itself maybe try shutting down the Deluge deamon & thin clients, then try moving the data manually.

Otherwise it is something else.. try running something like NirSoft OpenedFilesView & search the listing to see if the locked file is in there. (or click Options to view locked folders) There are a few other file/folder unlocking programs but am not sure offhand what to recommend.

I'd use this to see if you can find out if it's stuck on a particular file or if it's actually doing something to all of them.

It doesn't just upload files, it also compares them to files that already exist in Google's database. If it can find a match it won't bother uploading at all and will save you the bandwidth. It may take a lot of processing to generate the signature it uses to look up though.

If it looks like it's opening a bunch of different files, it's probably working as normal. If it's stuck on one file for more than 5 minutes it's probably a bug.

Download and run this as administrator to see what programs are opening what ports. Don't forget to either manually refresh with F5 or go in and set it up to refresh every so often.

http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/cports.html

There's also this program (also run as admin) to see what files are open, less helpful because there's gonna be a lot of junk.

http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/opened_files_view.html

Most likely you're freaking out over nothing, but those will help you out.

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Look for java.exe and .jar files.

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