Sleep and wake machine to trash busy files

Apr 05, '05 10:04:00AM

Contributed by: nrk

I have on a number of occasions experienced files in the trash that refuse to be erased, because they are in use ... even though they are not in use. Normally that requires a machine restart.

Quite accidentally, I discovered that putting the machine to sleep and then waking it up again did the same thing. Maybe quite obvious when you think about it, but this will save me a lot of unneccesary restarts, thereby prolonging the lifespan of my CPU.

[robg adds: I'm not sure about the prolonging CPU life bit, but it will certainly save a lot of time. We've run a number of hints about deleting busy files, though none in the last year or so.]

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