HELP WITH DELETING A FILE FROM RECYCLE BIN PLEASE!!

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#1

Hi,

I previously sent a Libreoffice impress file, which I downloaded from the internet and saved to my documents. I then moved the file  directly to the recycle bin. However when I tried to delete it from the recycle bin this message came up:

"Cannot move DC616: it is being used by another person or program. Close any programs that might be using the file and try again."

There were no other programs open and I have tried numerous times to delete the file but the same message keeps coming up repeatedly.

I would be grateful, if you could please tell me how to remove this file, completely from the system.

Thank You

Miss Kiran Masood

#2

This kind of issue wouldn't survive a reboot.

If you can't reboot, check that there is no more soffice.exe process
running (under windows, check the process manager with ctrl+alt+del).

#3

If you are running Windows, and you have set up the "quick start" options, i.e. you see an icon for LO on the task bar after you close it, then you are still running a part of LO and the deletion may not work - some times. I could not upgrade some extension because of that option.

You really need to shut down the computer and reboot it. If you cannot, then try logging off the user and then log back on again. That may or may not work. Rebooting is the preferred option.

With modern CPU speeds, the "quick starting" option[s] are really not needed anymore. For me, most of my systems open [to the splash screen] LO withing 15 seconds for the slowest ones, and 5 seconds on the faster ones.

#4

Hi :slight_smile:
Yes, the easiest way to deal with this sort of thing is to shut-down the machine.  Then switch it on again.  Before opening LibreOffice again delete the offending file.  When you do open LibreOffice it might ask if you want to recover the file.  Just click on the "Cancel" button to open LibreOffice normally.

There does seem to be some process running or the machine thinks there is a process running.  In most Operating Systems you can find a task manager and use that to "kill" the process.  Most seem to give you a task manager if you press
Ctrl Alt Del
but sometimes that forces the machine to reboot so it's worth saving your position in all open documents and similar.

In Gnu&Linux you could try this on the command-line

ps aux | grep soffice

ps aux gives you the equivalent of the task manager as a list in the "terminal console" / command-line window.  The | is either near the Enter key or near the left-hand shift key.  It looks a bit like a straight vertical line with a small gap about half-way down.  We call it a "pipe" and it allows the initial command to have extra things done to it before giving us an output.  In this case we "grep" (which is approximately saying "search for").  Hopefully you get 2 lines, roughly like this
user      7341  5.6  4.9 1274940 100512 ?      Sl   16:03   0:01 /opt/libreoffice4.0/program/soffice.bin --writer
user      7362  0.0  0.0  13588   872 pts/0    S+   16:04   0:00 grep --color=auto soffice
That 4 digit number might be 5 or even 6 digits.  It is the "process id number".  You can force the process to stop by using the command

kill 7341

but just replace my number with your one.  Note the process shown by the line that has "grep" in it has already finished so if you kill the wrong number it just says "no such process currently running".  In which case you can try the other number.

Bsd and therefore Mac might have the same commands but it might be a little bit different.

I think all 4 platforms have some nice gui called "task manager" that you could use instead.  I just don't know how to get it in Mac or other Bsds.

Anyway, one certain way to end the process is to shut-down the machine and then switch it on again.  Similarly if you ever need to remove a Usb-stick then you could just shut-down the machine to make it safe to remove instead of doing all the fiddling around.

Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

#5

Kiran Masood <kiranmasood33 <at> yahoo.com> writes:

Hi,

I previously sent a Libreoffice impress file, which I downloaded from

the internet and saved to my

documents. I then moved the file  directly to the recycle bin. However

when I tried to delete it from the

recycle bin this message came up:

"Cannot move DC616: it is being used by another person or program. Close

any programs that might be using the

file and try again."

There were no other programs open and I have tried numerous times to

delete the file but the same message

keeps coming up repeatedly.

I would be grateful, if you could please tell me how to remove this file,

completely from the system.

Thank You

Miss Kiran Masood

Try and download " Long Path Tool " is also useful in situations where you
see these error messages: Cannot read from source file or disk, there has
been a sharing violation, cannot delete file or folder, the file name you
specified is not valid or too long, the source or destination file may be in
use and many other file managing errors.

#6

Hi :slight_smile:
Shutdown the machine.  Switch it on again.  Now delete should work just fine.

Are you using Xp, Win7, Ubuntu, mac or something else?  If you let us know which OS then we might be able to give more elegant advice than the sledgehammer in my 1st paragraph. 
Regards from
Tom :slight_smile: