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 ...

Have you ever encountered a locked file on Windows? Windows will usually lock some files that are being used by other programs. Or there might be another reason that you are getting this message ...

The file is locked error message in Microsoft Teams isn’t very specific, so it is difficult to assess what the problem or solution may be. However, if you don’t ...

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" ...

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 ...

While it's as much a mea culpa as you'll get from the internet giant, getting randomly locked out of your own documents was a wake-up call for some users who realized how much they depended on Google ...