I am on Private Disk v 2.09. I close my files and every time I try to disconnect a drive letter I get the message:
There are files currently opened on disk Z:\
I feel that my data is not closing correctly. My question is how do I find out what file(s) are still open and how do I close them?
Quite often a volume can be used by a service, or another process that is running in the background - which makes it difficult to detect. In such cases, the best approach is to use a tool that monitors all the file activity that goes on in the system, and examine the list of processes that interfere with files located on the specific volume.
One such tool is Process Monitor; among many things, it can show which programs are working with data on a specific volume.
All you have to do is close these programs, and try to dismount the volume again.
If you see an unknown program accessing the volume, and you don't know how to close it (or you are not sure whether "killing the process" will have any serious consequences or not), look up the name of the program in a search engine and that will give you enough details to make a correct decision.
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