I've experienced this problem too,hopefully it can be fixed somehow, even a logout won't clear the file for trashing etc. --jerome
On Fri, 20 Aug 2004 17:24:41 -0400, Bob Swerdlow <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm building a stand-alone Python application using PyObjC 1.1 and Python > 2.3 on Panther. We've run into a problem: when we make a new release, the > users find that they cannot copy it over the old release, even after they > have quit the application - the Finder reports "The operation cannot be > completed because the item 'Python' is in use." > > This only happens if the old release has been run and then quit. I look in > the Activity Monitor and I don't see any processes from our application > still running and the rest of my processes don't have that file open. The > file that is "still in use" is > MyApp.app/Contents/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/Python (I know > because if I rename that file, the warning message reports the new name). > > If the user manually moves the old application to the trash then the new > version can be copied with a problem. However, why is that file still in > use and how do I avoid this? > > Thanks for your help, > Bob
