in reply to Re: Rename unreliable on Windows
in thread Rename unreliable on Windows

Thanks, I tested this with usleep 50000; but it didn't help. See resolution above (backup software was locking files).

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Re^3: Rename unreliable on Windows
by Anonymous Monk on Apr 04, 2012 at 12:54 UTC
    Good catch.   Points out that any operation that might possibly fail, especially when run on end-user machines (that are commonly less-privileged than the [foolishly, too privileged] developer machines), should trap for runtime errors with eval or otherwise, and be prepared to handle them plausibly.