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Sending a pdf as an attachement leaves open the original file according to
lsof | grep my.pdf How can i prevent this rather unpleasant behavior ?

OSX 10.6.8 - Mail Version 4.6 (1085)

UPDATE: I filed a bug at apple and the guys at apple actually responded saying this is a know bug (duplicate of #4023875) which is still open.

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  • How long after mail activity finishes are these file handles kept open?
    – bmike ♦
    Commented Jan 9, 2013 at 20:56
  • at least an hour
    – krichard
    Commented Jan 9, 2013 at 22:14
  • Well - I can't imagine any network access still being pending at that point. Likely you found a bug.
    – bmike ♦
    Commented Jan 9, 2013 at 22:28
  • How are you sending the file? Simple attachment, drag and drop type, or from within preview or another pdf reader?
    – Tony Tellez
    Commented Jan 17, 2013 at 19:32
  • I attach the file using the UI-Dialog in Mail
    – krichard
    Commented Jan 17, 2013 at 19:57

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I can't speak for why anything Apple has done, but three things come to mind for changing the open file status:

Unless you have some third party Mail plug in, it seems you've identified something that hopefully Mail eventually releases since you might have problems deleting a file that's still open.

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