Close processes... Dialog

I'm getting a dialog asking me to close (mysqld-nt.exe). It's in a sub-folder of my program's directory, but not involved in the update process. Is there a way to ignore this running program and allow updating?

Well, you have a couple of options. The first option is to put the MySQL binaries outside of your app's directory. The second option is to stop the MySQL service before the update and restart it after the update.

Unfortunately I've got hundreds of customer machines with this directory structure, and other computers & applications using the databases. Shutting down the database during updates isn't an option at this time. Are there any other work-arounds available?

No, not currently. You can shutdown the database and start it up after the update like this: Starting and Stopping Windows Services.

Going forward, I'd recommend putting the database application in its own directory outside your main app files.

Thanks for the prompt responses. I'll see what I can do to work with this.

Please consider adding the ability to exclude specific files from this requirement in the future =)

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