sen2cor error: could not delete *.xml

[unnic]

Hello,

recently I’ve been getting an error when running sen2cor on a Sentinel-2 scene, I’m just post the last part of it:

File "..\Anaconda\Lib\distutils\file_util.py", line 41, in _copy_file_contents
    "could not delete '%s': %s" % (dst, errstr))
distutils.errors.DistutilsFileError: could not delete '[S2A_USER_Granule].xml' [Because it is used by another process]

The important part is “used by another process” (rough translation).
I can restart sen2cor and continue the processing until the next error pops up.

Any suggestions how I can solve this?

[unnic]

Does nobody encouter the same error?
My current workaround is to loop the sen2cor command 10 times, after that the image is usually fully processed.

[agrapentin]

This happened to me. I have created an issue on the github repo.
github.com/umwilm/SEN2COR/issues/6

edit:
should have searched better

Workaround for sen2cor bug at resolution 10 m

sen2cor seems fundamentally broken at a resolution of 10 m, but there is a workaround: Background Information When started as L2A_Process --resolution 10 sen2cor_L1C_test the process performs the preliminary calculations for resolution 60 m and resolution 20 m and then crashes with a DistutilsFileError, because it could not copy a file over another file that was still in use. The obvious error is the DistutilsFileError: the _copy_file_contents() method in file_util.py checks if the copy des…

[unnic]

The workaround by @ChristianSeverin is already implemented.