| Re: "workspace in use or cannot be created" [message #69384] |
Thu, 14 January 2010 12:23 |
wlandsman
Messages: 743
Registered: June 2000
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Bruce, David,
Thanks for the quick replies -- I am now down to one happy IDL
process.
Cheers. -Wayne
On Jan 14, 2:27 pm, David Fanning <n...@dfanning.com> wrote:
> wlandsman writes:
>> On linux I would find the hanging processes and kill them -- what do I
>> do on Windows XP?
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> Find the processes and kill them! :-)
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> http://www.dfanning.com/workbench/energizer.html
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> Cheers,
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> David
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> --
> David Fanning, Ph.D.
> Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
> Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming:http://www.dfanning.com/
> Sepore ma de ni thue. ("Perhaps thos speakest truth.")
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| Re: "workspace in use or cannot be created" [message #69386 is a reply to message #69385] |
Thu, 14 January 2010 11:26  |
Bruce Bowler
Messages: 128
Registered: September 1998
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On Thu, 14 Jan 2010 11:19:01 -0800, wlandsman wrote:
> This is question from a Windows newbie -- and probably not directly an
> IDL question.
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> I am trying to debug a widget program on a Windows XP machine that is
> often crashing IDL. Each time I try to restart IDL I get a message,
> "Workspace in use or cannot be created, choose a different one", and so
> I choose a different workspace. I am now up to 12 different directory
> workspace ;-)
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> On linux I would find the hanging processes and kill them -- what do I
> do on Windows XP?
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> Thanks , --Wayne
Reboot (that is the Micro$haft way after all :-)
Alternately, start the task manager (ctrl/alt/del, select task manager),
click on the "processes" tab, find the ones running anything remotely
like IDL, click on them, then click the "end process" button.
Bruce
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