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Re: [LUG] Deleting files in Mac os X

 

On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 09:47:23PM +0000, Richard Brown wrote:
> Hi Guys
> 
> Bit of a long shot here but I can't delete some files in Mac OS X. I
> get the error message:
> The operation cannot be completed because the item "images" is in use.
> 
> But it isn't in use! Any ideas please?

Do you have 'lsof' on MacOS? Or (from what I recall of BSD) 'fstat'
should do something similar and is more likely to exist. Either will (in
theory) tell you what's using the file.

        bma

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