Re: [libreoffice-users] RE: HELP WITH DELETING A FILE FROM RECYCLE BIN PLEASE!!

Hi :)
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 :)  







> ________________________________
> From: Gabriel Risterucci <cleyfaye@gmail.com>
> To: 
> Cc: "users@global.libreoffice.org" <users@global.libreoffice.org> 
> Sent: Sunday, 14 July 2013, 15:48
> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] RE: HELP WITH DELETING A FILE FROM RECYCLE BIN PLEASE!!
>
>
> 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).
>
> -- 
> Cley Faye
> http://cleyfaye.net
>
>
> 2013/7/14 Kiran Masood <kiranmasood33@yahoo.com>
>
> > 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
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