Plugin Updater keeps faililng

[mirandam]

Starting about 2 years ago, my miranda-ng updates always fails with "Unpack operation failed with error code=32, update terminated"

In short:

1. After starting Miranda, I get a "Updates Found!" prompt and click Update
2. After all downloads are successful, I get "Unpack operation failed with error code=32, update terminated"
3. If I close Miranda, download the latest release manually and replace the files in my Miranda folder, everything works (but it is tedious manual work)
4. I did raise this https://github.com/miranda-ng/miranda-ng/issues/4418 1 year ago but was brushed off as a file locking problem despite trying to engage in logic
5. If it was indeed some non-Miranda process locking some files, why does my step 3 succeed?
6. Can someone help me find the cause of this?

Thank you.

[ghazan]

>net helpmsg 32
The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.

I strongly suspect that your antivirus is too curious, another popular reason of this error is Windows Index Service.
Anyway, you can open System Informer / Process Hacker / whatever, enter the name of your archive and receive the id of a process which blocks it

[mirandam]

What you describe is a false dichotomy: The only possiblity to get a error 32 is because of A or B and nothing else.

If antivirus/Windows Index Service or whatever else lock the file, how come they so kindly let me replace Miranda files without errors (after I close Miranda)?

Have you considered Miranda might be the problem?