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Process explorer, threads and handles tool, search the file name.
Kill the process or at least you know who now.
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Reason 3756 why Windows is slopware
Mac does the same thing (as others have said) and you can at least sudo lsof and find it, but somehow filesystem access now is worse than Windows 95 era Excel spreadsheet file handles that never worked.
Here's what an operating system is peeps: Something that handles files and programs that live on top of it. That's it.
How is it none of them can't do their basic function anymore?
Files, hardware / peripherals and programs. The distinction can get a bit blurry what with drivers and the fact that Linux exposes most of the hardware via the filesystem.
On macos, that program is sometimes just Finder trying to calculate folder size
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Same on Mac except itβs an external drive that some mystery program is using.
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