• Apple OS X

  Trashing Locked Files

  Posted by Rob Hindley on March 21, 2007 at 3:08 am

  I have a ton of locked files in folders I want to trash.
  Is there a shortcut key (or some other way) to trashing them without having to track down the locked files and manually unlock them all?

  Chuck Reti replied 19 years, 1 month ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Steven Lambion

  March 21, 2007 at 6:40 am

  I don’t think so. I personally run into this a lot and have to unlock every file. You could try logging in as root to see if this might work, but it might make the process even more complicated. The best way that I know how to do this is select all files the each folder and hold down option-command-I to open all files in the info window then deselect the check box for locking the files.

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  Chuck Reti

  March 21, 2007 at 6:07 pm

  http://www.apple.com/support is your friend.

  See the section “Deleting locked files” in this document.

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