• unalivejoy@lemm.ee
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    11 months ago

    Windows gives a permission error if you try to delete or edit a file that’s being executed. It has no complaints about moving it though.

    • Neato@kbin.social
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      11 months ago

      That’d be fine, though? Not an OS expert but if you move it, the computer knows where it goes any can pause and read/writes and utilize RAM for it’s in-use version. But if it tries the same thing when you deleted it, it’s going to have nowhere to put the results of whatever it’s doing. Also if the computer is just reading a file, it may assume you might not want to delete it.