OS X :: Locked File Deletion?
Apr 3, 2010I have a portable harddrive (Western Digital) for my Mac. I plugged it into my buddies Windows computer to copy some movie files that I am editing for our film.
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MacBook Pro :: File Transfer And Deletion From Damaged PC Hard Drive
Feb 19, 2012How can I delete files from a hard drive that I removed from my damaged PC computer using MacBook Pro. I can transfer files from the PC hard drive to the MacBook Pro, but then I want to delete those file from the PC hard drive so that I can have a spare external hard drive for my Mac.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
Applications :: Cannot Delete Vmx File - File Is Locked
Jul 2, 2010i have a file on my macbook pro called recycler and I cannot get rid of it from the trash
its says .vmx is locked
and having gone in to it i see the file
jwgkvsq.vmx has a locked sign by it
any ideas how to get rid of this ?
OS X :: Locked PDF File Won't Delete - How To Fix It
Oct 23, 2006i was burning some documents for somebody i know because there CD drive correctly. she gave me all of the files on a thumb drive, and one of them was a locked PDF file, i dragged all of the docs to my desktop, burned them to a CD, then deleted them all, but the locked PDF just gives me an error. how can i unlock it/ delete it?
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Mar 1, 2009I was copying some music over from a CD onto my computer and I can listen to it all on itunes but it still says it's copying over. I can't eject the CD because it says it's still in use! What do I do to make this stupid transfer box go away!?
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Feb 3, 2010My problem is with 300+ files in 2 folders that are left over from mac 9. They are in the trash, and are now locked, utterly. When I try to empty the trash, the error message says "The operation cannot be completed because you do not have sufficient privileges for some of the items." As you may know, when dealing with multiple "disks" (read: partitions), Mac X puts a .Trash or .Trashes folder on each disk. The trash folders on my computer are located on the following paths:
/users/(my name)/.Trash
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Applications :: Can't Delete Locked File - How To Fix It
May 31, 2010After getting my flash drive back from a friend, it had a Win32 virus on it. These are normally locked, and I usually just go into Get Info and unlock it. This particular file, however, doesn't let me unlock it. And since I can't unlock it, I can't delete it.
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Oct 28, 2009well we bought a second hand micro sd card from ebay. i was using it fine on osx no problems but when my brother put it on his pc there seems to be a worm on the card as his virus protection pops up. using my mac i am able to pinpoint the worm file but its a locked file and osx wont let me delet it or move it to the trash because its a locked file.
my question is how can i delet this file so my brother is able to use on his pc?
i am using OSX 10.6.1
MacBook Pro :: Unable To Delete Locked File
Sep 5, 2014when trying to unlock the usual way (right click - get info - uncheck the locked box) it will not allow to uncheck, the check mark just keeps coming back. Troubleshooting already done:
- Tried a disk repair, this didn't work
- Logged in as Admin and tried deleting the file, this didn't work
- launching terminal and "sudo rm -f" -- this idea didn't work either
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MacBook Pro
OS X V10.6 Snow Leopard :: Preview Cannot Do A Save As If JPG File Is Locked
Feb 16, 2012Is there a work around how can preview save a locked JPG file? PNG's can do a save as in preview even if is locked.
here is the error below.
the reason why i want to find out is because outlook saves their attachment files locked and if i open them in preview, i cannot do a save as on JPGs.
i have not tried any other image viewer to automatically open the attachments and save them. PNG attachements behave alright so why can't JPGs?
OS X V10.7 Lion :: Edit .plist File In App Package (error Locked)?
Apr 3, 2012I'm trying to edit a .plist file within a application Package (through "Show Package Content"). I edit the file in my favorite XML editor great, but when I go to save it the file is locked. How can I work around this?
Getinfo on the file shows that I have permission and the file is NOT locked.
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Mac OS X (10.7.3)
MacBook Pro :: How To Unlock Locked Pages File For Adding Information
Jun 28, 2012I unintentionally locked a file in Pages so now when I try to add additional information to that file and try to save it I get the message that I can't alter that file by adding additional information. How do I unlock a Pages file that has been locked?
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MacBook Pro, 10.5.8
OS X V10.7 Lion :: Resizing Image Using Preview - No Permission To Save File Is Locked
Apr 16, 2012Using Lion, I have tried to re-size an image using Preview and every time I try to save my edited image it tells me I do not have permission to save this/the file is locked when I have full permissions to do so and the file is NOT locked.
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Jun 26, 2012I use an external hard drive for Time Machine backups and to store some larger video files in a folder called Videos. The Videos folder on the external drive is now locked and I can't unlock it. I go to Get Info, hit the lock icon and enter my password, but the "Locked" checkbox is greyed out in the General section. In the Sharing and Permissions section, instead of displaying my name, it says "Fetching . . ." and I can't change the Privilege from "Write Only".
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MacBook Pro (15-inch Early 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.3)
OS X V10.7 Lion :: Preview Shows Files As Locked While They Are Not Locked?
Jul 1, 2012I can't seem to edit any pictures with Preview anymore since I upgraded to Lion. Every time I try to save an image after resizing or whatever, it says the file is locked. If I check the info of the file the "locked" checkmark is unchecked. And I have all the permissions to the file. Tried everything, switched the "lock after 2 weeks" thing of in Time Machine (even though tha would probably not help: images I took today are still "locked" in Preview), tried copying them and then saving them, and tried to lock them and then unlock them, but I can't seem to edit and save them.
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May 13, 2009Getting a message within photoshop that files cannot be saved as they are locked. I check the same files with 'Get Info' and the locked file box is unchecked. I have changed file permissions on the entire disc so that everyone can read/write but still the same message. Tried terminal command to uncheck flags also to no avail. I can do save as but a little frustrating. Is there a workaround to get all my files back onside?
This is a new disc that I may have installed without due care to permissions/ownership when I formatted it.
details: g5 dual 1.8 10.5.6
OS X :: TM Backup Deletion - Space Unchanged?
Oct 12, 2009I was deleting many TM daily backups, but after exiting TM, I would see in the finder that the delete windows wouldnt stop, so I figured to relaunch the finder hoping that this would end. Well I made a restart too and then although in TM those backups seemed to be deleted, the HD space was unchanged, as if they hadn't been deleted.
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Jan 20, 2010I am a potential Mac user and was wondering how deletion of programs and applications work? I understand that most of the files are contained within the installation folder because there is basically no registry for the most part. However, some applications will be tied to the OS right? What is the best way to delete applications completely?
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Nov 16, 2008I bought an AT&T air card for my comp to receive internet on and when it stopped working I deleted the program in hopes that when all the files were deleted that it would relaunch and I could start anew. To my knowledge all the files are gone and the air card's program still won't relaunch. It doesnt show up on the desktop when plugged in so I have no way of accessing it.
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Feb 19, 2009I'm still having a little problem grasping hard links. But no matter, here's the problem: there's a file in Time Machine that I want to keep backed up forever. It's too big to fit on my hard drive, and I want to make sure Time Machine doesn't delete it automatically when the backup drive is full.
How can I make it a "permanent" backup?
OS X V10.6 Snow Leopard :: Can't Undo Deletion Of Some Emails But Others I Can
May 18, 2012I'd like to be able to undo any deletion, or at least know why I can in some cases and not in others.We're using a free google business account using our own domain name, using Mail to retrieve messages. This is the ONLY account I have on this computer.In the inbox, I can delete one email, and under Edit it says "Undo Delete Message" and then I go on to delete the next message, and under the Edit menu it says just "Undo" and that's grayed out. Command Z doesn't work either.
The "un-undoable" deleted messages are in the trash associated (properly) with the account, but even if I immediately go to the edit menu, the Undo is still grayed out.This is pretty annoying and definitely puzzling
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OS X Technologies :: Automate Deletion Of Old ITunes TV Shows
Jun 8, 2012New Mac user here. I've got EyeTV running so that it automatically exports certain TV episodes to my ITunes library (watchable on an Apple TV). I was wondering if it's possible to script something that runs automatically and deletes old episodes of TV shows in my ITunes library so that I don't completely fill up my hard drive?
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iTunes, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
App Store :: Accidental Deletion From Purchased List?
Jun 10, 2012I accidently clicked the little x next to my purchase of Lion, and now it is not on my purchased apps list. How do I get it back on my purchased list, so I don't have to pay to download it again?
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Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4), 8 x 2.8 GHz 10 GB RAM, Radeon 4870
OS X Mavericks :: Junk Mail Reappearing After Deletion
Jun 24, 2014I delete messages from the Junk Mail box, and after about 10 minutes it's back.
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Jun 29, 2014I have a new Macbook pro with OS X 10.9.2. Processor 2.5 GHz Intel Core i5, Memory 4GB 1600 MHz DDR3.
In the process of importing all my settings, applications, documents etc. and then updated documents, I ended up with 2 user accounts.
I've set the 2nd of these to be deleted. The Users & Groups window which says it's "Deleting Account...", and won't allow me to close System Preferences because it "is busy and can't be closed. Users & Groups is removing a user account and Home directory" It's been like this for about 3 hours. There's no indicator showing whether it's progressing or stuck.
After doing this, I tried deleting an extraneous user on my 'old' Macbook and it deleted it in a few minutes (though in this case there was no question about removing its Home directory).
OS X V10.7 Lion :: How To Edit A "locked" File
Apr 10, 2012I recently edited a resume on a friends Mac computer and sent a copy to myself to my email. When I received the file, it was locked. Might be a pretty simple question, but how do i unlock the file and continue to edit the copy on my computer? I'm using Mac OS X Lion 10.7.3 at the moment if that makes a difference.
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Sep 30, 2000After I installed OS X I decided to go through my other partitions & do a little spring cleaning. In all, I trashed over 400MB of crap, but one file has refused to be deleted (it's a locked file left over from the old 3Com ISDN modem I had). When I try to empty the trash I get the following message:
"The operation cannot be completed because the item 'IQ320.BIN' is locked."
So, I look through the system help & find out that I either need to log in to OS X as the user who created the document ('root') or restart into OS 9 & unlock it from there.
Well, neither tactic has worked thus far. I restarted into OS 9 but found out that I can't access the file because it's in the trash (in OS X), which is an invisible directory (/Langly/.Trashes/102/). So then I restarted into OS X, logged in as root, but I still couldn't delete it. Desperate, I opened terminal, switched to root (su) found the files, but still can't delete the darned file. I tried rm, mv (thought if I moved it to somewhere that OS 9 could see it...), even chown, but each time I got "Operation not permitted." Any thoughts out there?
OS X :: Hiding File Inside Image File / Unable To Access Hidden File?
Mar 24, 2008I managed to successfully hide the file: cat picture.jpg hidden.rtf.zip > picture2.jpg
results in a picture (picture2.jpg) that is the size of the sum of picture.jpg and hidden.rtf.zip. I presume this means that I am successfully putting hidden into the picture.I can open picture2.jpg, but I can't figure out a way to access the hidden zip.
OS X :: Won't Work With Log In / Locked Out
Mar 10, 2008I was looking to modify OSX's main menu, y'know, top left, with the apple? I was trying to remove a button.
I had activated the root user account, and successfully modded the menu to add characters to one of the buttons. The file I edited was in here:
/System/Library/Frameworks/Carbon.framework/frameworks/HIToolbox.framework/Resources/English.lproj/ (after this I get fuzzy)/SystemMenu/Objects.xml
I don' remember the exact name, nor do I have access to it... as once I had successfully modded the menu the first time, I tried commenting out the menu object altogether in the XML file, and when I rebooted, I couldn't log on!
Whenever I clicked a user and started typing in the password box, no *** password characters were displayed, and the computer would go back a step, and ask me to chose a user again! The keyboard was working, as I was able to go to the Boot manager and choose to boot off a CD. I am reinstalling right now to fix the issue (the computer needs to be used ASAP), but I am curious as to what the problem may have been. It seems like with all the menu mods out there, this modification would not be unusual.
OS X :: Locked Out Of My Macbook - How To Fix It
Jan 13, 2011I am locked out of my Macbook. I inadvertently threw a very important file in the trash and shut down the computer. Now I can't get back in. Even when I use the master password it sends me to a dialogue box to create a new password but won't accept anything. If I have to reinstall my system that's ok but is there any way to retrieve my files, photos, etc..
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