When you open windows explorer you will get two panes close right side pane that is call preview pane.
and try now your problem will resolved.
thanks and regards
Manish Raj Bhatnagar.
Cannot move or copy files: The requested resource is in use.
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Hello, I encountered this error about a month or two. I was attempting to fix this myself before posting and asking the question in Microsoft Answers. I was trying to move and copy some pictures and videos from my phone to my Windows 7 x64 Ultimate PC. I have tried moving some files from my old phone to the PC, I still encounter this. I have noted that everytime I have to wait until the preview window has generated the thumbnail or preview whatever then I can open or copy to my PC's desktop. I have also tried copy to another directory, but I still encounter the same. I dont wanna waste time on this and wait for the preview comes everytime to open or copy the file. Ive also tried to cancel or hide the preview pane to stop generating the preview. But I still got the same result. So here I am asking for advices and help. Thank you.
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Anonymous
2014-03-11T21:10:35+00:00 Closing the preview pane does work. By doing this it allows the file to be transferred instead of being previewed. Its a bug im guessing.
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Anonymous
2014-02-03T09:41:54+00:00 THANK YOU for this sage wisdom! I was stumped trying to copy a file from my Nexus 7 to a local drive since I was getting the same error. "Resource in use," I thought, meant the file was open, but since I didn't have any apps open on my tablet, I didn't how this was possible. As soon as I closed the preview pane, it copied without a hitch. Again, thanks.
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Anonymous
2013-11-05T15:18:17+00:00 I was having the same problem with my Windows 7 computer. After I closed the preview pane, I was able to transfer my videos from my camera to my computer. No more error messages. :)
Thanks NonPersonallyIdentifyingNameWithExctly50Characters!
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Anonymous
2013-10-31T03:33:01+00:00 I had this hair pull inducing problem as well. After searching for answers a bit, it turns out that you need to close the preview pane in order for the file transfer to work. This is a seriously annoying bug. This worked! I like how the engineers always like to say something about the user profile being corrupted, I guess those profiles are programmed like **** or something. Users always have the answers!