maven… Failed to clean project: Failed to delete ..\org.ow2.util.asm-asm-tree-3.1.jar

Question

I use STS(spring tool suite) + maven plugin.

Every time when I run my application using maven-clean I see following error:

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Answer 1

Try disabling Project->Build Automatically.

As Scorpio suggested, there's a process running that's got a lock on a file somewhere.

I have a large multi-module maven project that regularly fails on clean and this resolves it for me. I re-enable Build Automatically when I'm done.