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Avast Antivirus holding my files hostage
Recorded some gameplay video today. Tried to rename it, move it, delete it while I was working with it but Windows says, NOPE, Avast Antivirus is still using it!
Now what the heck would Avast want with an *.avi file, especially since:
- It's a file I created (i.e. not downloaded off of or ripped from the Internet)
- It's too big to fit in my virus chest (4 GB file, chest size is 32 MB)
- I regularly do this as a hobby
Last couple of weeks ago, I had a ~36 GB AVI file, I tried to delete it and Windows wouldn't let me because Avast wouldn't leave that alone. I had to stop the Avast! Antivirus service to do anything with files. More or less, exclude the directory where I store all of my raw encodes.