Hi, I’m seeing the error “The process cannot access the file “File name” because it is being used by another process.” The bot executes the delete activity to delete the excel file that has been created and processed in prior. I have checked in debug mode, it seems the excel scope activity is cl…

Solution to this Since we were using Classic Excel scope, in properties there is an Instance Cache, value mentioned as 3000, change it to 0, resolved the issue for me.

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