File is busy

HTTP 409 · append-conflict — ← all Webpath errors

Concurrent appends kept colliding under the retry limit.

How to recover. Wait a moment and retry the append.

Example response

{
  "type": "https://muse.as/a/webpath/errors/append-conflict",
  "title": "File is busy",
  "status": 409,
  "detail": "Wait a moment and retry the append."
}

This page documents the append-conflict error type returned in Webpath RFC 7807 application/problem+json responses. The machine-readable detail field carries a recovery hint you can show a user verbatim — see the Spec §12 and API Reference.