Can't delete NAS files "in use"

We have a Cisco NAS connected to our network of 10 macs. We work live on all projects across the network. Selected files and folders say they are in use when we try to trash them. Can anyone offer ideas? I need the 65GB these files are using!

Shut down all clients, restart the NAS and then delete.

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I have disk space problem on my database server , 98% of my partition disk is used...checking the files I see that in my udump diectory there is a new 3GB trace file created by Oracle ...my questiions are :
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0 b9776680 2aaaacccd708 2aaaaca4b3b8
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2
3
4
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2 0
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