You know how much it irritates you when you wish to move a file, and you get a message saying the file is locked and you cannot move or delete it. This might happen due to the file being in use with ...

Some Office users have recently experienced “Unknown error trying to lock file” while using Office apps like Excel, Teams, OneDrive, PowerPoint, etc. It’s even ...

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Google Workspace users are getting a new feature to prevent colleagues from messing with their documents. Users will now have the ability to lock their Google Drive files, which should help reduce ...

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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" ...

So I'm troubleshooting nfslockd bombing out. I have an old RH8 nfs client that when it mounts a new box, it will work fine until it creates lock files, then it crashes lockd on the server. The test I ...

File locking has a long tradition in computing: you or independently running software wants to make sure that a file isn’t modified or deleted when it’s needed or in use. Because macOS is Unix based, ...