If you can't edit a file in any application, including the Terminal, then it may have a lock flag associated with it. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing author to ...

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 ...

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" ...

The PDF file format gives businesses the ability to create portable documents that users can view on almost any computing platform and in virtually every major operating system. Because of its broad ...

Until today, Microsoft Windows users who’ve been unfortunate enough to have the personal files on their computer encrypted and held for ransom by a nasty strain of malware called CryptoLocker have ...

Microsoft's Word software allows you to lock specific documents from editing with a password. This feature is designed to protect important documents from changes, but can backfire if a client ...

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 ...

The cybersecurity community has struck a fresh blow against ransomware with the release of a new tool which decrypts files locked through the Petya ransomware family. The spread of ransomware through ...

The Steam content file locked error usually occurs when a game is being updated. The update will fail because Steam cannot write to the computer hard drive. There are ...