The requested operation cannot be performed error when compiling an XNA project

Question

When compiling a project for the second time I get the following error message. I have to close down VS 2010 and it compiles when reloaded. If I make a change then the problem c

Answer 1

I also hit this issue when trying to save a file in Visual Studio (so non XNA, but google seems to be guiding here).

Problem turned out to be that I had a partially completed git command running in my terminal - it was a diff against the file I was trying to save.

When I terminated the command then the problem went away.