Thanks Ronni It is something new in the last couple of iterations of Mail. But as I said no big deal so I will tell my “tidy brain” to accept as normal !
> On 24 Nov 2015, at 10:47 AM, Ronni Brown <ro...@mac.com> wrote: > > >> On 24 Nov 2015, at 9:29 AM, Stephen Chape <chap...@bigpond.com >> <mailto:chap...@bigpond.com>> wrote: >> >> Sorry Ronni .. I was not very clear ! >> This happens after I have attached to an email an image that is on the >> desktop. >> Once the email has been sent I may delete that image from the desktop if no >> longer required. >> Then I cannot delete that image from the Trash until I Quit Mail. >> I just keep getting a message that the image is in use. >> >> Not a big deal but a little annoying to a “tidy freak” like me ! > > Hi Stephen, > > This sounds perfectly normal to me. > 1. You Attach an image that is located on the Desktop to a new email message > 2. Once the email message (with the attached image on the desktop) has been > sent, you place the image on the desktop in the Trash > 3. Try too 'Empty Trash' and you Receive a message ‘The operation can’t be > completed because the item “xxx.jpg” is still in use.’ > You are Unable to Empty the trash until you Quit Mail > > This is normal I feel, because Mail is still holding on to the 'link to the > location of the image'. > Once you Quit Mail and reopen Mail you are then able to Empty the Trash. > > Cheers, > Ronni > > 13-inch MacBook Air (April 2014) > 1.7GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i7, Turbo Boost to 3.3GHz > 8GB 1600MHz LPDDR3 SDRAM > 512GB PCIe-based Flash Storage > > OS X El Capitan 10.11.1 > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> Regards, Stephen Chape
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