Directory locked after launching file in directory

[msaxer]

Am I missing something? This has been my major pet peeve with Salamander (which is my favorite and most useful system tool!).

Example:
1. Create a directory and put a PDF in it.
2. Double click (or press ENTER) on the PDF to launch PDF reader app.
3. Exit PDF Reader so that nothing should have a handle to anything in the directory.
4. Attempt to delete directory in Servant Salamander.

Result:
Unable to delete the directory since Salamander has locked the directory. WhoLockMe proves that. The only way to delete the directory is to exit Servant Salamander.

Expected:
I should be able to delete the directory.

[cincura.net]

Hi,

can you reproduce this problem with another file? Maybe the PDF Reader binaries are still in the memory (and Windows unload it after exiting SS).

[omega]

what about the properties of the dir/file?

[jis]

1. Create a directory and put a PDF in it.
2. Double click (or press ENTER) on the PDF to launch PDF reader app.
3. Exit PDF Reader so that nothing should have a handle to anything in the directory.
4. Attempt to delete directory in Servant Salamander.

Result:
Unable to delete the directory since Salamander has locked the directory. The only way to delete the directory is to exit Servant Salamander.

Expected:
I should be able to delete the directory.

I repeated your procedure:

1. Create a directory and put a PDF in it.
2. Double click (or press ENTER) on the PDF to launch PDF reader app. I have C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 7.0\Reader\AcroRd32.exe, version 7.0.5.172.
3. Exit PDF Reader so that nothing should have a handle to anything in the directory.
4. Attempt to delete directory in Servant Salamander.

Result:
I was able to delete the directory without any problem. I have last beta 11 of SS.

So, what versions of SS and Acrobat Reader do you have? What OS, file system, etc.?

[Jan Rysavy]

Am I missing something? This has been my major pet peeve with Salamander (which is my favorite and most useful system tool!).

Example:
1. Create a directory and put a PDF in it.
2. Double click (or press ENTER) on the PDF to launch PDF reader app.
3. Exit PDF Reader so that nothing should have a handle to anything in the directory.
4. Attempt to delete directory in Servant Salamander.

Result:
Unable to delete the directory since Salamander has locked the directory. WhoLockMe proves that. The only way to delete the directory is to exit Servant Salamander.

Expected:
I should be able to delete the directory.

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[msaxer]

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Thank you, thank you, thank you! That did the trick.

I had the RJHExtensions shell extension installed. After removing it and installing Clipboard Path, the only functionality I regularly used in RJHExtensions, everything works as expected.

To the rest of you that replied - thanks for confirming that it was something specific with my system.

Martin

[zarevak]

Hi,
if you use only SS instead of Windows Explorer you can forgot the Clipboard Path shell extension because SS already have this (and better) functionality :

Copy Path + Name ...... [Alt] + [Insert]
Copy Path only ............ [Ctrl] + [Alt] + [Insert]
Copy Filename only ....... [Alt] + [Shift] + [Insert]
Copy UNC Path + Name ... [Ctrl] + [Shift] + [Insert]

- all in Edit menu