Critical Alert: Failed to lock 'AddressBook' OSStatus error -47

Started by chune11, September 17, 2014, 08:55:42 AM

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chune11

Hi there!

It seems that since upgrading to Mavericks, I have a small hiccup going on.  For some reason, every folder I have in Espionage will lock just fine, except for AddressBook.  Any ideas where to start?  Thanks!

zsolt

Hello, the error -47 means "File is busy"
It is probably that inspire of quitting Address Book, the files located in that folder are kept open.
You can run a lsof command from terminal to determine which files are open and by which process are they used.
You will find an example here
https://www.taoeffect.com/forum/index.php?topic=2798.msg6367#msg6367
If you need further assistance, let me know.

Rgds
Zsolt
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chune11

That worked perfectly!  It ended up being the Data Detective process that was still accessing files in the AddressBook directory.  I killed it and all is well.  Thanks!