Cant move or copy files from Movies folder, says they are in use?!?!

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I tried to hunt for this on google, but nothing came up. I even rebooted twice, no dice..

I have some downloaded youtube videos in my Movie folder I was wanting to put on my NAS. But for some strange reason I can't move them. It keeps giving me a error dialog box claiming the files are in use, even after rebooting a number of times and not running any other programs with the exception of finder in which I have no choice to run.. LOL..
Now keep in mind I moved some other video files from my Frostware Torrent Data folder without any issues. So its something with the Movies folder, or something that keeps looking the movies folder. However, nothing should be as I tried rebooting twice without opening anything. I can add more files, but can not move or copy and paste them to another folder on my NAS. I haven't tried to see if I can C&P them to another folder on my system drive, but not sure that will help either.

Any ideas or suggestions..
 
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UPDATE:

Ok, it let me Move the files to a temp directory I named Test, then copy and past them to my NAS from it without any issues what so ever. But this still leaves me with issue of the normal movies folder not working as excepted.. :(
 

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I've been running into a similar problem lately. Particularly with some folders in iTunes that no longer have anything in them but they are still registering as in use. If I find a solution will post here. What I've found so far has been no help.
 

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I've been running into a similar problem lately. Particularly with some folders in iTunes that no longer have anything in them but they are still registering as in use.

Anything being shown in the Activity Monitor? I've had the same thing happen on occasion and usually could always spot something going on in the Activity Monitor. Highlighting the activity and clicking on the stop sign usually works to kill the process allowing you to reboot, shut down, or remove the file\folder.
 

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Thanks for the tip. I hadn't gotten that far with troubleshooting yet. I noticed the problem several days ago but it has been a bit chaotic here for the last few days.

I first noticed the problem with a few folders in iTunes/Media that are now empty but won't delete. I don't think the problem is confined to iTunes though. Sometimes it seems like whatever app that was using the file is being a bit slow to release it.
 

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