Eureka! I had tried restarting, which didn't help, but just now I shut
down the system (not just a restart) and now I was able to delete these
files. I should have tried that before posting, thanks for the help!<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/19/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Russell Roberts</b> <<a href="mailto:russell.roberts@lifefoundation.org.uk">
russell.roberts@lifefoundation.org.uk</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">HI Dylan<br><br>I am a newbie also btu have locomotive successfully working.
<br><br>Have you tried restarting your computer then try and empty trash<br><br><br>> Hello Locomotive users,<br>><br>> I am a total newbie to Rails and Locomotive, and having some<br>> problems with the installation process. But first I think I need to
<br>> uninstall Locomotive. Here's my situation:<br>><br>> I downloaded Locomotive yesterday, opened up the disk archive, and<br>> then -- I think I made a mistake here -- I ran Locomotive straight<br>> from the disk archive on my desktop. I created a couple test
<br>> projects but was having trouble, then I realized that I had never<br>> installed the application to my Applications folder. (oops!) So<br>> then I copied the Locomotive app to the applications folder. Then I
<br>> tried to clean up my desktop, and delete the Locomotive disk<br>> archive folder -- but Mac won't let me do it, it says "locomotive<br>> is in use." I went ahead and deleted my new Locomotive folder from
<br>> the Applications folder just for good measure, then went to empty<br>> my Trash bin -- and it won't let me empty my trash now either! It<br>> says mongrel.log, development.log, and Logomotive.dmg are all in
<br>> use, and it won't delete them!<br>><br>> My end goal is to get this stuff installed. But for now, I just<br>> want to uninstall it all!! i.e. delete the archive folder from my<br>> desktop and then sucessfully empty my trash.
<br>><br>> I have gone to Force Quit and there is nothing Rails-related<br>> running. I have gone to my user account start up list and there is<br>> nothing Rails related in there. I have restarted my machine several
<br>> times.<br>><br>> How do I delete these files that seem to be in use?? Then I can<br>> start from scratch again I hope. Any help is appreciated!<br>><br>> dylan<br><br></blockquote></div><br>