madeline 0 Posted January 11, 2012 Share Posted January 11, 2012 I don't attach a lot of documents to my notes, but I've attached a few pdfs, and they usually show up in the note fulltext, so you can read them without opening them. I dragged a Word document into a note yesterday (a syllabus for one of my classes) and since then, every time I try to quit the program I get an error that says "A file attachment may be currently open in another application." Word is open on my machine, but the file isn't. The attachment shows up in the note as an icon, not the actual text of the document (I can quick-look it, but that's all). I did a forum search and only found one thread from someone who said the error started appearing when he tried to close EN once while the file actually WAS open in another application -- it wasn't clear whether he ever solved the problem. I'd like the stop getting the error, and also to see the document's text in the note. Any ideas? Link to comment
Level 5* JMichaelTX 4,118 Posted January 11, 2012 Level 5* Share Posted January 11, 2012 It is probably just a Word problem. Just quit Word before you quit EN, and see if that fixes the problem.EN will only display PDF's inline in the Note. If it is important to see the text in the Word attachment, you will have to copy/paste directly into the Note. Link to comment
Level 5* gazumped 12,062 Posted January 11, 2012 Level 5* Share Posted January 11, 2012 One peculiarity feature of MSWord is that if you open a document file, then close it again, Word doesn't let go of the file. I get the same error - the fix is to close Word temporarily to force it to clear out whatever webbed bunker it's keeping the file in. Carry out your operation, reopen Word. Robert is then your elderly male relative.As to seeing the document contents, that doesn't happen except for picture files and PDFs. If you need to see inside the file, or some part of it, cut and paste the relevant sections into the note as well as attaching the file, or print the file to PDF and attach both the PDF version and the Word file to the note.Edit: Darn! just pipped to the post there... Link to comment
anjoschu 67 Posted January 11, 2012 Share Posted January 11, 2012 This happens to me too with Preview on Lion. I have closed the document window in Preview (but not e Preview application), and EN complains about a file attachment maybe still being open. I have to close Preview completely for the warning not to appear. Maybe it's not Word's fault after all... 1 Link to comment
EJMarino 0 Posted July 31, 2013 Share Posted July 31, 2013 I am running Mac OSX 10.8.4. I am having the same problem, however, it's only on one machine, it doesn't happen on any others running multiple Windows 7 and MAC OSX devices) . I've rebooted my MAC and it still gives me the error "A file attachment may be currently open in another application." All other applications are closed also. Did anyone find a fix ? Link to comment
Level 5 luckman212 165 Posted March 31, 2014 Level 5 Share Posted March 31, 2014 Same problem here. Mac OS 10.9.2 + Preview.app. Evernote 5.5.0 (402474) Anyone find a fix for this? It's pretty annoying. The only thing I've found that "solves" the problem is fully logging out of my user account and then back on. But that's not usually a viable option when you're in the middle of a bunch of work. Link to comment
rbianchi 66 Posted April 10, 2014 Share Posted April 10, 2014 Same problem for me (some times). Mac OS 10.8.5 + Evernote 5.5.1 (402628 Direct)... And I have all applications closed when the message occurs. Link to comment
PaperQueen 50 Posted August 1, 2015 Share Posted August 1, 2015 This happens to me too with Preview on Lion. I have closed the document window in Preview (but not e Preview application), and EN complains about a file attachment maybe still being open. I have to close Preview completely for the warning not to appear. Maybe it's not Word's fault after all... Ditto here. The headache for me is that sometimes, Preview has another item open (outside of EN) I'm actively working with, so quitting it to make EN happy is a royal pain. Any idea how to cure this (other than shutting Preview down)? EN: Version 6.0.16 (451861 Direct) Mac OS: 10.10.4 Yosemite P.S. to anjoschu: Love the Batman silhouette. Link to comment
Level 5* JMichaelTX 4,118 Posted August 1, 2015 Level 5* Share Posted August 1, 2015 Same problem for me (some times). Mac OS 10.8.5 + Evernote 5.5.1 (402628 Direct)... And I have all applications closed when the message occurs. This has been happening to me for a long time now across many EN versions, and with Mavericks and Yosemite.I think it's a bug, but a minor one since no hard is done if in fact all attachments are close.I've just been ignoring it. Link to comment
PaperQueen 50 Posted August 1, 2015 Share Posted August 1, 2015 This has been happening to me for a long time now across many EN versions, and with Mavericks and Yosemite.I think it's a bug, but a minor one since no hard is done if in fact all attachments are close.I've just been ignoring it. That's what makes me nervous. One of these times, there really will be an attachment open, but I won't respond, having treated the constant warnings as "crying wolf." Link to comment
Level 5* JMichaelTX 4,118 Posted August 1, 2015 Level 5* Share Posted August 1, 2015 @PaperQueen: Yeah, that could be a problem. For me the warning just serves as reminder to do a quick mental check that I have closed all of the apps I've been using with Evernote are closed. Usually it's only one or two apps. I have developed a habit of saving and closing the attachment, then quitting the app to ensure EN is properly updated. So, I guess I don't totally ignore it. 1 Link to comment
PaperQueen 50 Posted March 8, 2016 Share Posted March 8, 2016 Just a little bump here to see if anyone's found a solution (or if the fine folks at EN have begun working on a fix for this pesky, annoying bug)...? Still occurs every. Single. Time. I. Quit. Evernote. Bueller? Bueller? Bueller? Link to comment
rmm30 6 Posted March 11, 2016 Share Posted March 11, 2016 So, I found evernote .wav files in my iTunes app. Deleted them (I didn't want them.) Restarted Mac - tadaaaa! The message is GONE. Has not appeared since. (I would get the message when switching between my accounts.) Try that and see if that takes care of your problem. It's all i got.... Link to comment
Randy Zeitman 19 Posted January 21, 2019 Share Posted January 21, 2019 Here's how to find your Evernote attachments. • Open an attachment • Command-click the title to see the path of the file • Choose .evernote and you'll see the folder with the attachments. (Then I moved the external-edits folder to the Desktop, Quit Evernote (Ok to attachments message), relaunched, Quit, problem gone, put external-edits folder back into .evernote folder and all is well.) Link to comment
Level 5* DTLow 5,744 Posted January 21, 2019 Level 5* Share Posted January 21, 2019 1 hour ago, Randy Zeitman said: Then I moved the external-edits folder to the Desktop No need to move folders; and not a good idea while Evernote is running. The files in the folder can be deleted if no edits are in progress. Link to comment
Randy Zeitman 19 Posted January 22, 2019 Share Posted January 22, 2019 If there is no need to move folders (one folder) what is the better solution? (If one knew which edits were in progress this step would never would've needed to be cobbled. Wouldn't it be nice to have an advanced search syntax to find out?) Link to comment
Caryn 0 Posted May 14, 2020 Share Posted May 14, 2020 I'm getting error message again. Link to comment
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