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How can I free files that are in use by quicklook?

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Mar 15, 20266385 views
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Problem

I have a couple pictures I was looking through and deleting stuck in my trash (Mac OS X 10.6 latest) and finder tells me they are in use when I try to delete them. I looked around online and found the lsof command in terminal (type lsod with a space, drag the file onto terminal, press enter) it tol…

Error Output

COMMAND     PID     FD
 Finder      7747    txt
 Finder      7747    13r
 mdworker    8685    txt
 quicklook   8822    13r
 quicklook   8822    14r

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Fix for: How can I free files that are in use by quicklook?

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Running the command in Terminal forces QuickLook to reload. Hence releasing all locked files, now you will be able to empty your trash successfully.

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