Deleting P2 files

[Arthur Luhn]

Drag the files out of the trash, click each file once (highlight) then go file>get info and on the general list uncheck the “locked” option. Trash again.

I avoid dumping stuff on the desktop by dragging directly from P2 cards to my hard drives and then eject P2 card and delete/reformat in camera.

If anyone has a better method, I’d be glad to hear it.

[Jeff Wilmes]

Thanks, I had same reply in the FCP forum. Alot of files to uncheck the “locked” box. I already had the files backed up and on the shelf, I was trying to just dump these off my RAID. Not sure how the files got locked. Maybe in the transfer from Laptop to external drive then external drive to RAID?

[Arthur Luhn]

They’re automatically locked.

[Shane Ross]

Hold down the OPTION key while you empty the trash.

No need to get info and unlock them…that is WAY too time consuming.

Shane

Littlefrog Post
http://www.lfhd.net

[Eric Hansen]

in my case, this did not work. Xsan does not allow you to drag something to the trash and hold it there. similar to a mounted server drive. when you drag a P2 card folder to the trash, it says “This folder will be deleted immediately”. holding OPTION down during any of this process doesnt do anything. a window still comes up saying that the files are locked.

i’ve got quite a few GBs of MXF files to delete from my Xsan. any suggestions?

thanks

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[Brandon Thomas]

Did you ever solve this? I have the same issue.. unable to delete locked P2/MXF files from our xsan..

thanks!

[Alexander Hemingway]

I’m waiting with brimming drives to find out the solution to this one as well. anyone?

[Brandon Thomas]

a utility called batchmod (linked below) allows you to reset any permissions or unlock any files. It was the only solution i found. works wonders.

https://www.macchampion.com/arbysoft/Welcome.html

[Mau Singh]

This problem is well known and finally I found solution for it:
https://pathtoodeep.com