Hi :) Shutdown the machine. Switch it on again. Now delete should work just fine.
Are you using Xp, Win7, Ubuntu, mac or something else? If you let us know which OS then we might be able to give more elegant advice than the sledgehammer in my 1st paragraph. Regards from Tom :) >________________________________ > From: garrydam <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Sent: Wednesday, 21 August 2013, 18:21 >Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: HELP WITH DELETING A FILE FROM RECYCLE BIN >PLEASE!! > > >Kiran Masood <kiranmasood33 <at> yahoo.com> writes: > >> >> 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 > > >Try and download " Long Path Tool " is also useful in situations where you >see these error messages: Cannot read from source file or disk, there has >been a sharing violation, cannot delete file or folder, the file name you >specified is not valid or too long, the source or destination file may be in >use and many other file managing errors. > > > > > > >-- >To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] >Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ >Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette >List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ >All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted > > > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
