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In case anyone is interested, there's a powertoy called file locksmith that will show what's using it and let you kill it: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/file-locksmith
"Time to see who's stopping me from deleting this file... svchost??? Goddamn it!"
Probably the indexing service, it's always the indexing service.