Same job running twice, scheduled once

I have a job that launches 2 copies of itself at the same time for some unknown reason. The job moves and deletes files and this behavior is causing resource conflicts as both versions of the job are tring to move the same files. We've tried deleting the job, but nothing seems to stop this behavior. Can you advise how we can stop this behavior.

You are likely running 2 instances of the scheduler on the same machine. Perhaps, one instance is running as a service and another instance running in a remote desktop session, or something like that.

We only have one instance runnig. We verified this the last several times this happened.

How did you verify that?

By the way, how this job is scheduled? Is that a straight time-based job or a dependency of some other job or file/event?

it's a time based schedule. I only see one schedular ikon in the system tray ( windows). We seem to have solved this by creating a new version of the job that uses 2 processes and removeing the original from the schedule. Thanks.

System tray icon is not an indicator of how many instances are running. In the system tray you can only see things that run in your own session.

To verify number of instances go to Task Manager, click Processes tab, check Show Processes for All Users checkbox on the bottom of the screen. Sort by "Image name" column and look for occurrences of 24x7.exe.

I bet that when you have the same job starting twice at the same time you have 2 instances of the scheduler running.