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Re: Firefox: A copy of Firefox is already open.

Subject: Re: Firefox: A copy of Firefox is already open.
From: Jeremy Wellner <email@hidden>
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 09:41:57 -0800
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What I actually do with this problem is have a script that cleans up every night to minimize the issue and a few others that crop up sometimes. I scrub the FireFox parentlock files, Office .fstemp files (were causing sync errors on PHDs... until I remembered it may just be better to not sync them period... but in any event... it cleans em), Home Directory Caches (really don't want to backup their cache), Network Trash and I just added the printer line to try a fix for Office 10.3.8 Word Printing issues (which has been fixed with 10.3.9, but working on getting time to pump that out).

##Variables
drive='/Volumes/sd2RAID5/GLHomes';
parentlock='.parentlock';
fstemp='.fstemp*';
caches='Caches';
trash='.Trash';
printer='Printer';

chflags -R nouchg $drive

find $drive -name "$parentlock" -print0 | xargs -0 rm -Rf {} \;
find $drive -name "$fstemp" -print0 | xargs -0 rm -Rf {} \;
find $drive -name "$caches" -print0 | xargs -0 rm -Rf {} \;
find $drive -name "$trash" -print0 | xargs -0 rm -Rf {} \;
find $drive -name "$printer" -print0 | xargs -0 chmod -R 000 {} \;

Jeremy Wellner
Technology Group
Stanwood-Camano School District
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External: 360-629-1205
Cell: 425-418-4972


On Jan 3, 2008, at 10:15 AM, David Mohs wrote:

Our school has 800 user accounts.  Occasionally a user will encounter
the following dialog when launching Firefox...
"Close Firefox: A copy of Firefox is already open. Only one copy of
Firefox can be open at a time."
This is a documented issue at the following web site, and relates to
an invisible file ".parentlock" not being deleted when Firefox quits
(or unexpectedly quits).
http://kb.MozillaZine.org/Profile_in_use
Does anyone care to share how they resolve this issue for students in
their school?
I wish there were an easy fix like holding down the OPTION key while
launching Firefox or something like that.  Until we find an easier
solution, all the other techs in the school just forward a list of
affected students to me and I need to manually got into each home
directory, make the file visible, and delete it.
David
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