Windows 10: Microsoft has not fixed the preview pane bug?

The bug I'm talking about is that you can't delete files (mostly PDF) when the preview pane is active.
It says that the file is already in use.

I am just wondering.. aren't their software engineers working with Windows as well and noticed that annoying bug? *Biggrin That's the first thing I'd fix if I was there *Tongue

:)

 

Preview pane not working for documents in windows 10

Videos don't appear as videos in the preview pane on Windows 10. Therefore, they cannot be played in the preview pane as they could be on Windows 7. Has Microsoft decided to disable that feature? If not, how can it be restored?

 

Can't Delete File Because of Preview Pane in Windows 10

Yes, you can just close the Preview Pane and that fixes the problem most of the time. Maybe MS really believes that selecting the file (so it displays in the Preview Pane) makes it "open". I disagree.

My Preview Pane previews .jpg, .png, .docx, .pdf, and other image or image-related formats in addition to font formats. I can delete those different kinds of images while previewing them, but I can't delete a font until I close Preview Pane. I've known how
to work around this bug since Windows 7, but it took me awhile to realize the problem was the Preview Pane.

Microsoft should have fixed this by now. If they allowed commoners like me to submit bugs, I wouldn't be posting here.

 

Hi, I've just deleted a pdf file which I could see in the preview pane..

 

Weird, I wasn't able to do that since I had Windows 8 *sarc

*Edit: Did you delete it permanently? I mean Shift+Delete? Because if so, it does work, but just delete won't work

 

Just simple deletion.. I copied a pdf to my desktop, opened explorer, went to desktop, opened the preview pane, selected the file, view shown in the preview pane, press 'delete' - gone.

I noted a little discussion on this in a quick search; what you could try out of interest is downloading and installing a program called 'IOBIT Unlockit' - easy to find.

With a pdf open in the preview pane, rt click on the file, click IOBIT Unlockit and see what it says.

However given that you can shift delete it, I doubt it will tell you anything.
Interestingly, when I rt clicked the pdf the preview pane then said
'This file can't be previewed because it is in use'!

 

I have to open task manager and kill the process that is supporting the view, Word, Excel, Nitro, etc. Terrible implementation. Not to mention I can't get PDFs to preview no matter what I do.

 

Note: I suspect this is a problem affecting people who use Adobe Reader.
I use Sumatra, and have no problems.
Searching the internet for this current thread:
Windows 10 explorer preview prevents PDF delete. Is this being fixed? - Windows 10 Forums
I find references to Adobe.