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Thanks for the help everybody! I am posting the how I got it working for anyone else in a similar situation.

Apparently I had processes that were still running so I used the "lsof" (list open files) command to list the commands and the PID

Code:

$ /usr/sbin/lsof +D /path/to/problem/directory/

USER        PID ACCESS COMMAND
/path/to/problem/directory/:
                    zdepski   13298 ..c.. less
                    zdepski   13323 ..c.. less
                    zdepski   25997 ..c.. bash
                    zdepski   30070 ..c.. watch

then I killed the jobs. However the regular "kill" command wasn't enough and I used

Code:

$ kill -s SIGKILL 13298
$ kill -s SIGKILL 13323

How and why I had less commands that were "still running".... I don't know? I guess I didn't exit the terminal or "less" properly?

Thanks,
Anna