Cannot delete files after emailing them

Unfortunately 10.6.4 didn't fixed it…

and i was counting on that 😟
apple, please wake up!

I think it was fixed sometime ago, and something needs clearing in your user account. Let me test, but please outline an exact situation where it does not work for you, including where your file resides before the attachment.

Ernie

it doesn't matter where the file is, once you sent it as an attachment to an email by Mail, you can delete it but when trying to Empty Trash you can't get rid of the file unless you quit Mail or by Securely Empty Trash.

this isn't fixed in 10.6.4 either.

I second the two above posts. No matter where it is, attaching it as an email marks it as in use, and the only way to release it from use is to quit mail

My test -- I duplicated a JPEG image file on my Desktop. I then attached that copy to a new email message, and sent. Did not quit Mail. Selected the image file (the copy that I had attached) on the Desktop and moved it to Trash. Then Emptied Trash without any warning or refusal. I am familiar with the issue as it originally came into Snow Leopard and Mail 4.x, but it has not been present, for me, at least since 10.6.3.

Please select such an image file with a control-click and choose Get Info. What is reported in the section for Sharing & Permissions, exactly? Unless we can determine what is different in each of your situations, it is not likely to get fixed, especially if I and others cannot replicate.

Ernie

other? dude, no offense, but these forums and the web are stuffed with this problem. i even saw some threads from back in 2003 about this.

anyway, Mail does that to any file with any permissions, no exception.

Permissions:
Me: read & write
Staff: read only
Everyone: read only

In terminal: -rw-r--r--

And nothing more to say than what's been said here, every files send by mail is "in use" since mail quit.

Hi,

I am a nearly constant and faithful reader of this forum, and I could never say it is stuffed with such reports. I never saw this one until Snow Leopard and Mail 4.x, and I cannot replicate it.

I would suggest to anyone having this problem to create a New User Account, and as that New User set up at least one email account, and test for this behavior. You will need to have a file in that New User Account to do a proper test. If you set up a POP account, select to have it leave messages on the server so as to not prevent their download in your normal User Account. If not familiar with setting up a New User Account, see:

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.5/en/8235.html

This will be a useful test, and it not meant to suggest a permanent switch to the New User Account, but rather a test of the Mail application outside of your normal User Account and its existing setup data.

Ernie

I can verify that, with a new user account, this bug goes away, and mail behaves as expected. It must have something to do with my user account. Any ideas where to go from here?

Did you migrate anything while setting up on this iMac? Or vice-versa?

Ernie