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Brad
Selfish Heathen
 
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Zone of Pain
 
2004-11-22, 21:12

Yes and no.

Holding the option key does two things. 1: It empties the trash without notification. 2: It deletes locked files.

Files that are "in use" are treated differently than locked files because any processes accessing them may crash. On very rare occasions, particularly if a program or the whole system hangs or crashes, some files may be left in this "in use" state.

The quality of this board depends on the quality of the posts. The only way to guarantee thoughtful, informative discussion is to write thoughtful, informative posts. AppleNova is not a real-time chat forum. You have time to compose messages and edit them before and after posting.
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