Hi team ! I would really appreciate if someone can bring light to this particular error that I am having the last 2 months , I am desperate https://discourse.prefect.io/t/intermittent-error-with-prefect-deployments/4253

hi @Sebas Aguiar SBA - it seems like your custom working dir may be "locked" by another process at the time you try to clone the code? can you share how you're configuring that working directory so I can make a minimal reproduction?

Hi @Nate thank you so much you are the only one that respond to my question yes absolutely so the working directory is on my RDP on C:/prefect-sba that folder contain a flows folder and also a venv folder for all the python packages to start the prefect agent i do this First I go to C:/prefect-sba and activate the venv folder, Once venv is activate I run this commands prefect cloud login -k pnu_uxxxxxxx prefect agent start --pool "default-agent-pool" --work-queue "test" and for my deployments I use the same C:/prefect-sba folder with venv I have 16 deployments currently prefect deployment build -n zCrmSyncDataAirtable -q test flows/zcrm.py:sync_zoho_data_to_airtable -sb github/prefect-repo --apply for each deployment that may require to save or read files I click on the prefect ui -> infrastructure (annonyimus912481....) -> then edit and change the working dir parameter to C:\prefect-sba that way when running from the cloud and require to read something it would retrieve it from that folder Each deployment access a different folder or file so the issue is not that I am trying to open save or read the same time on 2 different deplomemnts The deployments don't event start is 0 seconds of exeuction time Downloading flow code from storage at '' 085956 PM prefect.flow_runs ERROR Flow could not be retrieved from deployment. Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Users\sebastiansbaprefect\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python312\Lib\site-packages\prefect\engine.py", line 422, in retrieve_flow_then_begin_flow_run else await load_flow_from_flow_run(flow_run, client=client) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "C:\Users\sebastiansbaprefect\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python312\Lib\site-packages\prefect\client\utilities.py", line 100, in with_injected_client return await fn(*args, **kwargs) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "C:\Users\sebastiansbaprefect\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python312\Lib\site-packages\prefect\deployments\deployments.py", line 298, in load_flow_from_flow_run await storage_block.get_directory(from_path=from_path, local_path=".") File "C:\Users\sebastiansbaprefect\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python312\Lib\site-packages\prefect\filesystems.py", line 1014, in get_directory copytree( File "C:\Users\sebastiansbaprefect\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python312\Lib\shutil.py", line 600, in copytree return _copytree(entries=entries, src=src, dst=dst, symlinks=symlinks, ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "C:\Users\sebastiansbaprefect\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python312\Lib\shutil.py", line 554, in _copytree raise Error(errors) shutil.Error: [('C:\\Users\\SEBAST~1\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\tmpu9f948ywprefect\\flows\\src\\zdesk_http\\zdesk_http.py', '.\\flows\\src\\zdesk_http\\zdesk_http.py', '[WinError 32] The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process')] Is really weird that it tries to access a temp folder and that SEBAST-1 is a old route from a previous RDP we change to a new one and faster (the previous one already present the shutil error) I think it would solve if I prevent prefect to pulling and overwrirting the code of my project everytime it invoke a deployment , like the github block already tell where the code exist ? is mandatory that overwrite? Thanks in advance