On Jul 7, 2012, at 4:21 PM, Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [V] wrote:

>> The point here is that the app ISN'T running -- it was just terminated in a 
>> novel way that failed to notify all concerned, like the trash system.
> 
> Earlier today there was no Preview icon in the Dock (and I could not empty a 
> PDF from the trash) and yet the Preview app showed up in What's Keeping Me? 
> as the app responsible for the trash not being able to empty the PDF.  Does 
> this mean that the Preview app is really still running, or that the What's 
> Keeping Me? app also was not notified?

> If indeed the Preview app is not really running, then there are a LOT of 
> failed notifications (Trash, Force Quit, What's Keeping Me?, others?).

Not really -- nobody "notifies" What's Keeping Me, it just asks the file system 
what IT thinks and then reports that.

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