# Apparent file-locking problem while using "hugo server" and IntelliJ
**URL:** https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/apparent-file-locking-problem-while-using-hugo-server-and-intellij/7494
**Category:** support
**Created:** [July 18, 2017, 2:23pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/apparent-file-locking-problem-while-using-hugo-server-and-intellij/7494 "2017-07-18T14:23:47Z")
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### Author:  [@hourback](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/hourback)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2017, 2:23pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/apparent-file-locking-problem-while-using-hugo-server-and-intellij/7494/1 "2017-07-18T14:23:47Z")
Hi, all.
Using IntelliJ on Windows 10 I’m getting this message in my terminal in which I ran “hugo server”:
`2017/07/18 09:03:15 error: open C:\Hugo\sites\example.com\config.toml: The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.`
I’ve tried Notepad++ to perform the same operations I did with IntelliJ and didn’t get that error. I haven’t found any IntelliJ settings that would change its file-locking behavior. I’ve looked around for more general issues with live-reload scenarios and IntelliJ but didn’t find anything yet.
First I was running `hugo server` from a Cygwin terminal but then tried cmd.exe and got the same results.
Is there a workaround for this?
Thanks in advance!
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### Author:  [@hourback](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/hourback)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2017, 3:00pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/apparent-file-locking-problem-while-using-hugo-server-and-intellij/7494/2 "2017-07-18T15:00:29Z")
I think I might have fixed it!
I disabled this option and so far I have not had this problem again:
Doesn’t make obvious sense to me but whatever.