Emptying Trashcan

[Nlynn527]

I am at a loss. I was cleaning up my hard drive and throwing away documents and other things I no longer need. I had a duplicate of a document and move it to the trash can. When I click empty trash can, everything else disappears but this one document. I get an error message saying the action can not be completed cause the document is in use. It is a MS Word document and I made sure to completely close out of Word. I can not figure out how to delete this document. help! lol

 

[simsaladimbamba]

Tried logging off and logging back in again and then emptying the Trash?
Tried restarting and then emptying the Trash?

You can't empty the Trash or move a file to the Trash and Solving Trash Problems

 

[Nlynn527]

Yes i tried restarting, and logging off.

 

[8317645]

this happened to me once and it happened to be because Safari was still trying to download the document... so if its a document you tried downloading from Safari, try to clear out your download list