Guild Wars 2

Guild Wars 2 crashed on start up and now it’s insisting that Local.dat is in use by Guild Wars 2 and stops working. Normally it clears on a restart but this time it’s just kept on being flagged as in use. I can’t delete or move it, as windows 10 thinks it’s being used. -repair doesn’t seem to work either.

Any ideas of a simple fix for this?

See if you can stop the process in Task Manager? I’ve no idea, as I don’t use Win10.

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Open the resource monitor (ctrl+shift+esc > performance > resource monitor), select the CPU tab, select associated handles and search for Local.dat to find out which process has it open. You can try to kill it, depending on what it is, by right clicking it.

Alternatively, start in safe mode or recovery mode and delete Local.dat.