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 ...

VeraCrypt is a free, open-source disk encryption software that is available for Linux, MacOS, and Windows. With VeraCrypt, you create a virtual encrypted disk on your internal drive that can then be ...

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 ...

I did not download a file locker. I repurposed a tool I already had.

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" ...

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 ...

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 ...

Locking files in Google Drive helps prevent accidental edits, unauthorized modifications, and unnecessary confusion when working on shared documents. Whether you’re collaborating with a team, sharing ...

A person’s need and right is privacy. And with more and more information being stored in our computers, laptops, and, more recently – smartphones and tablets, it’s understandable that many have the ...

We've all been there: We're using code to automate something and send to a specific file, or attempting to relocate a file from one folder to another. We find the file and think it's available to open ...