On Jul 7, 2012, at 16:35, "Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [V]" <[email protected]> wrote: > I have one other question. If the PDF is not open, then why should I not be > able to delete it, regardless of whether or not the Preview app is running? > In the past, I thought this was possible, at least most of the time, but now > it seems that it hardly ever (if ever) is possible.
I think the short answer is because preview may have made changes to the PDF before it quit. Until preview actually launches again and closes the file, the system doesn't know if it's safe to delete it. in short, the file is marked as 'busy'_______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
