Reg. matlab lock

[cmethani]

I keep getting the following missing file error:

missing E:\New_Topics\MultipleExemplarSVM\esvm-bus\detections\trainval-bus-g.exemplar-svm\result_00249-00252.mat

However, a folder called " result_00249-00252.mat.lock" exists in the same folder.

What is the point of the folders with ".mat.lock" extension?

[quantombone]

The folders with .lock extensions are lockfiles which are written to let multiple processes communicate when you want to perform large scale training on a cluster.

If you are running things on one machine, you can go ahead and delete all .lock folders. They should be automatically cleaned up after training and if they didn't this means something is probably wrong. It could happen that you ran training once, killed the job, and tried running again. In that case you will have to manually delete the lock files.