[Macworld]

Post your comments for What's Keeping Me? 1.3 here

[jpmm]

For those who are using VMWare or Parallels or even bootcamp... This is a very nice utility from the Windows side of things that has been super helpful to me. It's pretty similar to the above, and lets you "unlock" the hold Windows sometimes has on files you want to delete, etc.
http://ccollomb.free.fr/unlocker/
(I've been using it for some time, but I have not affiliation with it whatsoever).

[musicaleCA]

There is a more sophisticated program that has the same functionality as this called What's Open. It doesn't require you to type the name of a particular file; most of the time, I have no bloody idea what exactly I'm looking for, I just know what volume it's on. What's Open allows you to easily see all open files on a particular volume via a dynamic drop-down menu; as far as I've seen, What's Keeping Me won't find such files even if you just search the volume's name.
Or perhaps it's not just one file in trash, but several dozen? (This can happen with torrents in the latest version of Transmission.) What's Open will be more friendly about identifying every file with "trash" in it's path.
tl;dr: Better: http://www.agasupport.com/?page_id=72

[spasecookee]

So what are these great Terminal commands that I keep hearing about???

[Dan Frakes]

musicaleCA said:

There is a more sophisticated program that has the same functionality as this called What's Open. It doesn't require you to type the name of a particular file; most of the time, I have no bloody idea what exactly I'm looking for, I just know what volume it's on.

Which is exactly what What's Keeping Me will show you, as noted in the article.

[bugsnw]

I use BatChmod to force empty the trash.
Apple should fix the other problem. It's annoying.

[mwjimmy]

spasecookee said:

So what are these great Terminal commands that I keep hearing about???

"lsof" has all the options that you would want to do this. However, the simplest is to "grep" for the volume that's busy.
e.g. If you are trying to eject a volume named MusicBackup:
lsof | grep MusicBackup
The first column should give you some idea of the program that has the disk open. It may not be exactly what you are expecting, but it should give you an idea. When you have fixed the problem, by exiting the program or closing any open files that the program has, the disk should eject fine.

[EarlScheib9999]

Here's what I use. Hope these are helpful to you.


To eject a stuck drive:

Terminal - log in as root (su -)

df (to get the /dev name of the drive)

hdiutil eject -force /dev/drivename (where you got drive name from df)

Source:
http://www.osxfaq.co...2-2002/02-27.ws

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To eject a CD or DVD that isn't mounted or recognized:

(from Terminal window, logged in as su)

drutil tray eject
or
drutil tray open
or
sudo drutil tray eject
or

Boot into open firmware (command option o + f); then type
eject cd

Or restart computer while holding down mouse button until the CD or DVD ejects.

Source:
http://forums.osxfaq...56f69d4efec38a5