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Mention another wrinkle in the file-locking problem.

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Nathaniel Beaver
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.. _lock files they use by default: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_locking#In_Microsoft_Windows
.. _file access is a nuisance: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/546504/how-do-i-make-windows-file-locking-more-like-unix-file-locking
This gets interesting when the files are hidden thumbnails.
https://superuser.com/questions/537041/action-cant-be-completed-open-in-another-program
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2025703
By contrast,
on Linux it is not unusual for two different applications
to share read access to the same file,