.background file can't be deleted from LaunchBox folder on Clean Up Images

[Former user]

• Version 5.10
• Windows 10
• Every Time
• Go to the Tools menu and click "Clean Up Images"
• https://i.imgur.com/dEqXhCb.png

[Brad Cheyne]

You need to close Google Drive (in task manager or your task bar) or change the directory you store your images. It is being used by the Google Drive service and there for can not be removed.

[Brad Cheyne]

If you are the same user who asked the question in the Developer Sessions video, I dealt with the ticket first before hearing your question so I didn't know that you still got this error after Google Drive was closed out, you didn't provide me with that so I apologize. I'm re-opening this ticket.

[David Sandry]

I came across this problem today

• Version 7.10-beta-3
• Windows 10

Used sysinternals process explorer to search for the .background file, Launchbox had 2 handles on the file, one a file handle and one appeared as a DLL.

Workaround is to set default background as Launchbox default while doing the image clean up.