188994 - cannot open my profile, states in use, new file in profile directory named "parent.lock", can't delete or rename. What next?

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Account Configuration, defect)

Description

[John Ray Carver, Jr.]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130

When I tried to open my mail profile, it stated it was in use.  After some
checking and re-booting, it was not in use but had a new file in the profile
directory, named "parent.lock" and the time/date stamp was the instant I tried
to open the account.  I cannot delete nor rename the file, not in Win nor dos. 
In dos it is not even visible, in windows it is a "0" bytes file.  What do I
need to do to recover it?

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Try to open my mail account
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
"account in use"

Expected Results:  
opened my mail account, as it usually does.

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

You should be able to delete it with the windows explorer while mozilla is not
running.

YOur files system must be corrupt if you can't ..

Comment 2

[Malcolm Turnbull]

You probably need to restart windows then immediately try to delete the file.

Comment 3

[John Ray Carver, Jr.]

The problem turned out to be due to installing Netscape 7.x to take a look at
their new version.  Once I un-installed the new version of Netscape, the parent
lock was gone and all worked quite well, as it did prior.