Jobs location in printer queue

I have a job on hold in the printer queue that will not delete. I can't find any folders that the jobs live in, is there one?

baltwo,
Thanks for the reply,
I think what happened was I deleted the PDF for a print job that was on hold and I was then not able to delete the job from the queue afterwards. That's my guess. I found somewhat of a superficial fix in another post , not sure if it actually deleted the job, but it's gone from the print queue.
I think I'll wait on the terminal action.

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