Trying to delete a program that's not open, but says it is? [closed]

Solution 1:

Go to Applications > Utilities and open up Activity Monitor. Scroll down until you find your application. Highlight it and click the "Quit Process" button in the upper left. Now it is no longer running and can be deleted from your computer.

Solution 2:

If it's not listed in Activity Monitor, you can probably delete it using Terminal.

Open Applications -> Terminal.

First type:

rm -rf 

Note there must be a "space" typed after the "-rf". But don't panic if you miss it, because rm will just complain about "illegal option" and you can try again.

Then drag the file from the Finder window into Terminal, that will make Terminal insert the full path to that file for you.

Press Enter and the file should be deleted.

If it still refuses to delete (not likely), then try restarting the machine before retrying this.