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Avid Error of the Day: File ‘creating6′ can not be deleted because it is busy.

As with all of these Avid errors, just skip ahead to other less-technical blog content. I post these when I want solutions to turn up better in searches for other Avid users (and myself).

I've seen this as "creating2" "creating3" "creating4" "creating5" "creating6" etc. Had a crash while importing an image -- images longer than around 10000 pixels in one dimension will cause Avid to hang. Also, TIFF in 16bit RGB instead of 8bit RGB.

No problem, right? Force quit Avid and restart. Problem is, it doesn't see the drive I was importing to anymore, so it gives this file error. (Some speculation on Avid boards talks about permissions and stuff.)

Anyway, the fix is easy if annoying. Full system reboot. Hopefully you've fixed whatever in the image caused the crash in the first place. Once I was rebooted it saw the drive again and I was able to proceed.

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