OSError: [Errno 16] Device or resource busy

RogerAsbury — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 23:32:40 GMT

Not sure if this is the right board to post this, if not, please advise...

I have a notebook on ArcGIS Online that I have scheduled to run daily. 90% of the time it works, but sometimes it errors out with the error in the title:
Just curious what causes this and any tips to avoid it.

Edit - Narrowed this down to a delete function listed below. But again, most of the time this works. Only rarely does it throw the above error:

def delete(): for f in os.listdir(directory): if ".snapshot" not in f and ".tasks" not in f: if os.path.isfile(os.path.join(directory, f)): os.remove(os.path.join(directory, f)) elif os.path.isdir(os.path.join(directory, f)): shutil.rmtree(os.path.join(directory, f)) # Delete Temporary items for i in folder.list(): if i.title == "temp" and i.type == "CSV": i.delete()

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OSError: [Errno 16] Device or resource busy