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 ...

I'm trying to delete a Windows install off a hard drive from another Windows install by shift deleting. I'm running into a bunch of locked files though. Unfortunately formatting isn't an option ...

A recommended approach to secure your most private documents — whether it’s a PDF, Word file, or Excel spreadsheet — is to lock them with a passcode. While this does help keep sensitive content safe, ...

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" ...

Why are the damn photos files locked and if so why can they not give me a simple method of unlocking all the photo files when I want to work on them? I rotate the photo in Photoshop, or Irfanview, and ...