If you receive File in Use, The action can’t be completed because the file is open in another program even if the file is closed in another program, then this post will help you.

Windows says your file is in use because it's open in another program? Learn how to force rename, delete, or move the file.

Jugalkumar Kshirsagar asked how to delete a file that Windows insists is open. For reasons that should be obvious, Windows can’t delete a file—or move one—if it’s in use by a program.