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Identify what is keeping you from emptying Trash. Free
What's Keeping Me?... Have you ever have the problem where you can't empty the Trash or eject a disk because something is preventing you? Usually the reason is because some application has a file open, and thus you can't get rid of the disk or trash the file. That's why we made What's Keeping Me! What's Keeping Me will identify the application that is holding the item open. You can then use What's Keeping Me to quit the problem application (or kill it if needed) so you can perform your task. What's Keeping Me includes an Automator workflow so you can perform searches directly from the Finder too!
What's New
Version 2.2:
- Added support for dragging a file to the application icon in the Finder or the Dock to perform a search
- Added applescript support so you can tell application "What's Keeping Me?" to open "path:to:file:" to perform a search
- Fixed 10.6 bug in listing mounted drives and files in trash
- Other bug fixes
Requirements
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.4 or later.
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.4 or later.
What's Keeping Me? User Discussion (Write a Review)
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| Downloads:9,285 |
| Version Downloads:2,912 |
| Type:Utilities : File Management |
| License:Free |
| Date:18 Mar 2010 |
| Platform:PPC / Intel |
| Price:Free |
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What's Keeping Me?... Have you ever have the problem where you can't empty the Trash or eject a disk because something is preventing you? Usually the reason is because some application has a file open, and thus you can't get rid of the disk or trash the file. That's why we made What's Keeping Me! What's Keeping Me will identify the application that is holding the item open. You can then use What's Keeping Me to quit the problem application (or kill it if needed) so you can perform your task. What's Keeping Me includes an Automator workflow so you can perform searches directly from the Finder too!
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alobi reviewed on 18 Jun 2009
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A good tip to do just that, is to use the "Secure Empty Trash" option in the finder File menu options. This will do just that, empty the trash - without having to do anything like command line stuff, open a 3rd party app like this one, etc...
Keep in mind, this won't work for stuff that is truly still running as a root process, and it will take awhile for larger files trying to be trashed since it is writing 1s and 0s over that data...
But for a quick tip, it works nicely and you won't have to worry about whats keeping me or anyone else for that matter.
Cheers!
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Fred3rik reviewed on 20 Aug 2008
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macnerd1984 reviewed on 01 Aug 2008
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You can always contact me and I would help if you have a problem. You can do that from my website hamsoftengineering.com.
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This app just saves me a ton of time - I'm working with files a lot, and there's nothing more frustrating, than being unable to clean the trash, because of busy files.
Thanks a lot!