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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Windows may lock some files and prevent access to them from within File Explorer for a number of possible reasons. In many cases, a program that crashes or freezes does not release or reset the file ...

Imagine working on a key document in Google Drive, only to find out later that someone made unwanted changes. To prevent this ...

One of the more frustrating experiences when using a computer is when you want to delete or rename a file or folder in Windows, but get an error stating that the file ...

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 ...