After opening an image Image.FromFile( fileName ); I can't delete it.

[m00n]

Hi all. I have an app maintains a list of images from a directory. For each name, I need to open that image, get the bytes and send the bytes back to the caller, but... I also need to delete the image once I've processed it.

I have this function here pulls a file name from a list, that opens the image from the hard drive, gets the bytes into a byte array and tries to then delete the file from the disk. However, I keep getting an error

System.UnauthorizedAccessException
HResult=0x80070005
Message=Access to the path 'K:\TestImages\5.png' is denied.




public byte[] PullNextImage( )
{
string nextFile = DequeueNextImageName( );
if( nextFile == "" )
return null;

_currentImage = Image.FromFile( nextFile );
byte[] next = ImageToByteArray( );

_currentImage.Dispose( );
_currentImage = null;

if( next != null && next.Length > 0 )
File.Delete( nextFile );

return next;
}


So, I've pulled the bytes out of the image, I've disposed it, set it to null but I still get this error, what else am I supposed to do to do?

I know for a fact it's not a general file permissions issue with this file because if run this exact same function but I take out all the image processing, it will delete the file just fine.

public byte[ ] PullNextImage( )
{
string nextFile = DequeueNextImageName( );
if( nextFile == "" )
return null;

File.Delete( nextFile );

return null;
}





Rick

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