We may have mentioned this once before, but just in case we didn't: You cannot drag a locked file to the Trash. If you try, you will get a message warning that you do not have sufficient privileges to ...

Users with external hard drives or other storage devices may run into problems accessing files on these devices, especially when attempting to delete files that are reported by Mac OS X to be "locked" ...

Are you trying to open a password-protected PDF or ZIP file? Then, you already know how frustrating it can be. You try out different tools, and the result is a ...

Note: This is a pretty old trick. So many of you might be knowing this already. But some are still unaware of this, hence I thought of letting them know. I am very sure that many a times when you try ...

Windows only: Determine what programs are using a locked file with freeware utility, WhoLockMe. We recently covered how to delete locked files, but let's say—rather than using a brute force solution ...

I am very sure that many a times when you try to open, delete or move a file or a folder, you get an error message saying it is already in use. Even after trying to ...

MacOS is arguably the most user-friendly desktop OS, but it's not perfect. There are a few things that can trip up users new and old, and one of them is unlocking multiple files in a folder so that ...

When a shared file gets locked for editing, real-time collaboration gets affected as users cannot open or comment on the file. One known reason for this error is dual ...