Movie file in use prevents deletion of folder on external volume Mac OS X

[Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami]

Through the years I have learned to “untether” LC before such operations. 

There are several scenarios:  

Set the defaultFolder to empty (if you are logged into files on a volume over the LAN)
set the filename of image to empty (if you are showing and image on a remote volume)
set the filename of the player to empty

that sort of thing..

*then* touch your files on disk — or save or quit or whatever that might be prevented by the “anchor” to some file or folder in the LC app.





On 10/13/15, 4:23 AM, "use-livecode on behalf of Martin Koob" <use-livecode-bounces at lists.runrev.com on behalf of mkoob at rogers.com> wrote:

>In my application I can movie  a folder to the trash that has movie file in
>it that my application created by using an applescript with applescript's
>delete command.
>(*I use an applescript to delete it so the file and its contents are moved
>to trash,  I tried revDeleteFolder but it just moves the folder to trash and
>its contents are permanently deleted.)
>
>This works when the folder and file are on the local hard disk.
>
>On an shared volume I get an error,  "The operation can’t be completed
>because the item “Test.mov” is in use."
>
>The movie had been opened in the player in the application but the player
>URL had been changed to a different movie before trying to delete the folder
>with the file in it.
>
>So the finder still seems to think my LiveCode app is using the movie file. 
>Is there a way to have my application unload the movie so the finder will
>allow me to delete the folder containing it?
>
>Martin
>