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• 10.5: Find out which program/process is locking a file – Mac OS X Hints
  Here's the workflow that I use

  1) ASK FINDER FOR ITEMS
  Start at /Volumes
  Type: Files and Folders (Allow multiple selection)

  2) RUN SHELL SCRIPT
  shell: /usr/bin/perl
  pass input as arguments

  for $f (@ARGV) { $r = quotemeta $f; $c = `basename $r`; print `lsof +fg | grep -v " EVO " | grep "$r"`};

  3) ASK FOR TEXT
  text: "The Culprits"
  default text: "Nothing Found"
  require an answer

  When you run this, it opens /volumes and lets you pick the disk you cannot eject. then it tells you which apps are locking it.

  (tags: mac osx automater file locking applescript)

~ by bryan on December 7, 2009.