Hey experts, I deleted a complete Time Capsule backup from an ext. hard drive, as I have no need for the backup & drive. Unfortunately it can't delete two files: boot/efi and bootX. They are locked and when I do a 'get info' on them, the actual locked box is ticked but greyed out..... has any one got any ideas how to unlock them, so I can delete them?
I am trying to free up space on my Time Capsule. When I try and delete my backup files, I get a message that says, "The operation cannot be completed because the item "BootX" is locked."
I want to keep some of the other backups on the drive because they are not for my mac. How do I delete these files without deleting the other backups on the drive?
maybe the file have the uchg flags, that means the file is unchangeble "User immutable flags", you can view the flags from terminal app with "ls" command, show the output like this:
bash$ ls -alO
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel uchg 319152 14 Nov 17:52 boot.efi
Cp_Devil, I have the same problem, and no idea what you're talking about! 🙂
I can open the Terminal application, but no idea how to implement the procedure you've suggested. Sorry to be such a noob, but can you step us through it?