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Title: Help Deleting a glitched file Post by: erkishhorde on November 18, 2010, 10:41:04 AM I was trying to convert a doc to a pdf and it glitched out on me and now I can't delete the pdf that I made. It keeps saying Adobe Acrobat is still accessing the file. I looked at my running processes and only found the acrotray so I killed that but I still can't delete or rename the file. Rebooting doesn't help either. I tried deleting it from the command line too but that didn't work either. Any tips? There's no reason for me to HAVE to delete the file other than I don't need it anymore and it's taking up a tiny amount of space. I mean, it's not hurting anything that I know of. I just want it gone but can't delete it.
Title: Re: Help Deleting a glitched file Post by: JEFF_H on November 18, 2010, 10:49:02 AM try it in safe mode?
Title: Re: Help Deleting a glitched file Post by: sugarcrook on November 18, 2010, 11:50:15 AM I'm not a Windows user, but see if this helps:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15708/lsof-equivalent-for-windows (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15708/lsof-equivalent-for-windows) Title: Re: Help Deleting a glitched file Post by: Monster Dave on November 18, 2010, 12:06:33 PM I'd go to control manager and kill any Adobe or Office processes regardless of if they seem to be affecting anything, then see if you can delete it. If that doesn't work, restart your computer that should terminate the process and then delete it.
If all else fails, boot up in safe mode. Title: Re: Help Deleting a glitched file Post by: He Man on November 18, 2010, 12:21:13 PM bust open MSDOS! it'll even delete itself if u ask it to.
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