The process cannot access the file

[iikuzmychov]

Disclaimer

There is already exist an closed issue #78 describing the same problem. Hovewer the problem is still present and my last comment within that thread has no reponse, so this is why I decided to create a new issue.

Problem

Unfortunately, very often when I try to rename the project, it ends up with the next error:

How to reproduce

While I can reproduce it on any project, here is a concreate example:

1. dotnet new console -n Test
2. dotnet new sln -n Test
3. dotnet sln add Test.csproj
4. Open solution in Visual Studio 2026
5. Try to rename project Test to Test2 using renamify
6. Error on "Updating project references" step