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aicul

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Jun 20, 2007
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Several times I could not delete a file placed in the waste basket. When I empty the waste basket, OS X will say that the file is being used.

I check and cannot understand who is using the file. Finally I find the culprit and think that there is something curious.

So, I copy a file locally onto the desktop, I then write an email and drag/drop the file, send the email, the email is sent (whoosh sound). Then I place the file in the waste basket and empty the basket. This fails because the file is "in-use". I then quit mail. The file can be deleted.

What confuses me is why mail continues to use a file once the email has been sent. I can understand mail sort of "hogging" the document until the email is sent, but it should "let it go" after the email is sent.

Anyway this is a pain (rant: like so many other things in Yosemite)
 
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