On Jul 4, 2012, at 3:49 PM, Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [V] wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Often I try to empty the trash and I get a message that a file can't be
> deleted because the application that opened it is still in use (or something
> like that). Frequently the file is a PDF. In many cases, the Preview app is
> not even running, or if it is, I quit it, and still I can't empty the PDF
> from the trash. I am able to use the Terminal app to delete the file, but
> that's not as convenient. The file is owned by me and is not locked, so why
> can't I empty it from the trash? Thanks,
Sometimes, the actual answer is "nothing," and the culprit is a damaged file
system.
Right now I have a Time Machine backup drive that Time Machine won't do backups
to. It also won't unmount because "something" is using a file on it. But OS X
won't tell me what (because there IS nothing), and when I run Whats Open, it
tells me the same thing: nothing. So I run Disk Utility on it, and it finds a
few links and frobs to repair, after which it will unmount OR do exactly one
backup, and then it's back in this state. I tried DiskWarrior, but it fails on
this drive because it runs out of memory (the only drive DW has ever punted for
me). So I'm erasing it today and starting my backups over.
My suggestion is that you boot from another drive and run Disk Utility and/or
DiskWarrior over your boot drive to straighten out your problem.
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