Update fails with "EBUSY" when trying to `rmdir` folder (Windows XP)

[ycanales]

Following the basic.js example the first steps work fine (old version detects and downloads the newest, closes, then it runs from temp folder) until the update fails at step 5 with the following error after a while—it retries a lot of times as I checked in rimraf.js lib.

The error:

Error {
  code: "EBUSY",
  errno: -4082,
  message: "EBUSY: resource busy or locked, rmdir 'C:\Archivos de programa\theapp'",
  path: "C:\Archivos de programa\theapp",
  syscall: "rmdir",
  [...]
}

Note: Archivos de programa = Program files

I noticed I couldn't delete the folder manually either, and using LockHunter it said it was because of nw.exe (the one from the update version, running from temporary folder)

I checked the nw.exe processes running, and the three of them were from the temp folder (so I discarded that the old one may be still running)

I'm using:

• node-webkit-updater: 0.3.0
• nw: 0.12.2
• nw-boilerplate
• Windows XP Pro SP3

I'm fairly new to node and nw.js so I'm kind of stuck here.

Thanks for your help!

[Aufree]

You should kill your old version of app first.

[adam-lynch]

@ycanales you definitely killed the old one in step 4?

[Mior]

I have similar issue.
I'm not able to remove folder because pwd is in current directory, which is app directory as described in #96. One possible fix is to change pwd.
This still won't fix issue if I run nw from current directory as changing pwd won't help because I'm locking current directory just by being there. For that probably this approach would be better. Just remove files from inside folder instead of entire folder.

Would removing files/folders from inside cause any issues? Any ideas?

[Mior]

This issue should be fixed by this change #105