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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.

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).

what about the properties of the dir/file?

msaxer wrote: 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.?

msaxer wrote: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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Jan Rysavy wrote: Please follow this link http://www.altap.cz/salam_en/faulty_she ... sions.html and let us know...

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

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