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Dirk van Boxtel
Dirk van Boxtel
Participating Frequently
December 6, 2012
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"One or more pages are in use and could not be deleted" - AGAIN.

  • December 6, 2012
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  1. Open a PDF file.
  2. Save it under a different name
  3. Try to delete a page

You'll get this error:

"One or more pages are in use and could not be deleted"

I've had this billions of times now and the only solution that works 100% of the time is closing and re-opening the file. This leads me to believe it's something with "locking" the file while saving, but not unlocking it after done saving.

GET THIS FIXED PLEASE because it's annoying LOADS and LOADS of people.

As evident by the 7000+ search results for the exact phrase "One or more pages are in use and could not be deleted".

And that's just the part of the userbase that actually reports the problem.

There are several topics about this issue, some marked as "solved" erroneously.

Note, I'm a paying customer, use Photoshop/Illustrator/Dreamweaver/Fireworks and Bridge during my daily work, and have had this issue for months and months across several different computers (two different workplaces, and at home) and have ran into this time and again, when all I want to do is cut a PDF into several smaller PDFs.

Closing and re-opening your program because you're unable to fix this issue is NOT ACCEPTABLE. It's THE WORST kind of user experience, as this issue is the ONLY reason I use Acrobat at all, and it can't even do that.

Cheers,

- Dirk

Ps.: Sorry, I'm very frustrated running into this time and again, and then having to wade through thick mud (your site is a UX nightmare) to report this issue, which has been report oodles of times on this board before.

    최고의 답변: a_C_student11733502

    For me - using Acrobat Pro X on Windows 7 - this problem went away when I updated Acrobat Pro to the latest release (Help > Check for Updates).

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    mitchh95605776
    Participant
    April 6, 2021

    It's April 6, 2021 and I have the most up-to-date version of Adobe Acrobat Pro DC available and I am STILL experiencing this exact problem! None of the stated solutions are working. WTF!?!?  

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      defaultt6qfx29awljn
      Participant
      November 24, 2020

      Your original comments are exactly on point and not in appropriate in the lead.  I give them a big AMEN!  I have encountered this problem as well.  Today, I discovered a new work-around for the problem.  Extract the pages from the larger PDF document rather than deleting the pages.  I don't know how frequently this will work, but it worked for me today.

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        Jacob5C80
        Participant
        November 5, 2020

        We are also having this issue. Turning off and on adobe fixes it for about two hours and then it fails again. It is not incredibly disruptive but after three months of this every day, we are looking at quite a bit of time wasted.

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        CAL ltd
        Participant
        October 29, 2020

        I have been having this problem way too often. Also a paying customer. I am currently working on a pdf document, where I inserted another pdf, and now I'm trying to delete those pages. Of the three pages I inserted, the first two got deleted but the third one is refusing to go, with this famous error message.

         

        Closing and reopening doesn't even work for me. What I have to do is move the offending page to the end, then select all the other pages and "Extract" and save as a new pdf. This could be a solution if it happens once or twice, but not almost daily!

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          Anonymous
          October 7, 2020

          Gotta be honest, it's rather disappointing that 8 YEARS LATER I am still having the same issue. And yes, completely closing the program and starting over does seem to work. It's just frustarating that in order to delete a page I have to save, exit, reload, then try again.

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            Jasonology
            Participant
            March 19, 2019

            Yep this just happened to me for the first time.

            Tech specs

            Acrobat DC 2017.012.20098

            Architecture: x86_64

            Build: 17.12.20098.240878

            AGM: 4.30.71

            CoolType: 5.14.5

            JP2K: 1.2.2.38798

            macOS 10.13.6

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              JWStrongerSVS
              Participant
              September 11, 2018

              Ran into the same problem on macos, version 2018.011.20058

              Closing and reopening the file did not resolve the issue. Only quitting the whole application and reopening resolved the issue.

                palenpointe
                palenpointe
                Participating Frequently
                September 8, 2016

                I'm getting the problem today. I believe I'm using the latest version 2015.017.20053 Acrobat Pro DC.

                This is very frustrating. I've tried saving as a different filename to no avail. I cannot delete pages all of a sudden.

                I have no idea why the problem started, but I was not able to fix it until exiting and restarting the application.

                This problem has apparently been around for about 4 years. Why isn't it fixed yet?

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                Faintscrawl
                Known Participant
                June 27, 2016

                I have this issue too, today, June 27, 2016.

                Adorobat
                Adorobat
                Participating Frequently
                June 27, 2016

                Hello ,

                Please try to update Acrobat to the latest version.

                Open Acrobat>Help>Check for Updates

                Thank You!

                tlmurray23
                tlmurray23
                Inspiring
                July 3, 2024

                This thread was added to as of June 2024. You don't think most, if not all, of those experiencing a problem have out-of-date Acrobat? Thank you for the canned, "please reboot" suggestion.

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                  Anonymous
                  May 3, 2016

                  I ran into this problem.  I see it is a persistent problem.

                  I see it suggested it might be due to a defect in the pdf in question.

                  This pdf started as a fax.

                  I printed the pdf document as a pdf and saved.

                  This second new pdf looks the same as the old to me.  But now I can delete pages.

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