OS: Leopard 10.5.1
OmniFocus: 1.0 Vapourtrail (v50.0.95014)

Problem: from a few updates ago, OmniFocusMetadataImporter is stuck in my Mac OS trash can and I can't delete it because, it reports, the item is in use.

I've gone hunting around for the process that calls this file - no avail.

Anyone else?

[ksrhee]

Originally Posted by alanmellerick

OS: Leopard 10.5.1
OmniFocus: 1.0 Vapourtrail (v50.0.95014)

Problem: from a few updates ago, OmniFocusMetadataImporter is stuck in my Mac OS trash can and I can't delete it because, it reports, the item is in use.

I've gone hunting around for the process that calls this file - no avail.

Anyone else?

You can use force empty trash command available on some utilities or simply restart your Mac and then you should be able to empty your trash.

[merlyn]

Originally Posted by alanmellerick

OS: Leopard 10.5.1
OmniFocus: 1.0 Vapourtrail (v50.0.95014)

Problem: from a few updates ago, OmniFocusMetadataImporter is stuck in my Mac OS trash can and I can't delete it because, it reports, the item is in use.

I've gone hunting around for the process that calls this file - no avail.

Anyone else?

Yeah, I've seen it happen too. I just go into terminal, and type "rm -rf ~/.Trash", which doesn't pay any attention to the "in use" flag which is apparently set on the file in question.

[dave256]

I've seen this happen and have found that waiting another minute or two and trying to empty the trash again succeeds. The other thing I've done a couple times is move the file from trash to the desktop and then manually delete it using the rm command from the terminal.

[Tim Wood]

This blob of code gets loaded by the Spotlight background daemon. It should get unloaded 'eventually' through we might be able to help it by poking Spotlight after a new version of the application is loaded (it still might not be immediate). I've logged <bug://bugs/43339> (Require re-index of OmniFocus data on launch of new version) on this issue though it might have to wait until a 1.x release.