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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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WHAT'S NEW
Version 2.1:
  • Updated to work with 10.6 Snow Leopard
  • Automator workflow is installed as a Service in Services Menu for 10.6
  • Automator workflow is installed as a Finder plugin in 10.5 or 10.4
  • bug fixes
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.4 or later.

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Developer:HAMSoft Engineering
Downloads:6,012
  - Version d/l:938
Utilities:File Management
License:Free
Date:07 Oct 2009
Platform:PPC/Intel
RATING
***½.
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What's Keeping Me? User Reviews (11 posts)Write A Review
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Jun 18 2009
*****

ALOBI  I use it offen. What else to say: It works!  
(Version 2.0)

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+2
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Feb 2 2009

JOCATRA  Working fine. Thank you.  
(Version 1.4)

praisebury
+2
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Feb 2 2009

HANK AT HAMSOFT ENGINEERING  Thanks! I'm glad to hear it. As a developer your never sure no matter how much testing you do ahead of time.  
(Version 1.4)

praisebury
+5

Feb 2 2009

CYBERATOMIC  Who cares about what is keeping you... you just want to empty the trash and move on with your life.

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!  
(Version 1.4)

praisebury
-4
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Aug 20 2008
*****

FRED3RIK  I don't know what the previous commenter did wrong, but for me, this thing worked flawlessly. Thanks a lot for making great freeware/donationware.  
(Version 1.3)

praisebury
0
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Aug 1 2008
*....

MACNERD1984  Didn't work for me whenever I tried it (3 times). After trashing it, it got stuck in the trash despite the image being ejected etc. and I had to use Onyx to get rid of it. Oh the irony...  
(Version 1.3)

praisebury
-4
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Aug 2 2008

HANK AT HAMSOFT ENGINEERING  I'm sorry the program didn't work for you. What's Keeping Me only works when the problem is because of an open file being held by an application... which is usually the reason you can't trash a file or eject a disk. So if it didn't work then you must have had a different problem.

You can always contact me and I would help if you have a problem. You can do that from my website hamsoftengineering.com.  
(Version 1.3)

praisebury
+3

Aug 1 2008

PETER DA SILVA  I normally just use "sudo lsof | grep Trash"... but I gotta agree that's a great icon. :)  
(Version 1.3)

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0
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Jul 4 2008

SPUNGEE  that app icon is in the top 10 best app icons, ever. yes, really!  
(Version 1.2)

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0
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Jun 20 2008

JROX  This is actually quite a handy app to have around. Many times ive been unable to find what's keeping me from emptying the trash. Kudos to the developer!  
(Version 1.1)

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0
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Jun 20 2008

LARSEN2K4  Great!!!

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!  
(Version 1.1)

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0
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Jun 18 2008

CFLASH  Thank you!!! just what we've neaded for years  
(Version 1.0.5)

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