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Deleting locked files

I have a file called my music which is locked and which I sent to trash. Now I can't delete any items because it says I dont have permissin to access some items. Help please??!! I have a macbook air


MacBook Air 13", OS X 10.10

Posted on Nov 25, 2019 5:30 PM

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Posted on Nov 26, 2019 2:38 AM

Select the item in your Trash, and choose Put Back from the secondary menu. Click once on that item, and press command+i. On this Get Info panel, you will see a locked category that is checked. Uncheck that, close the Get Info panel, and again, move that item to the Trash. Empty the Trash.

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Nov 25, 2019 6:47 PM in response to solverfast

have we tried enabling permissions on the file?

there is a box that pops up when you type cmd-i and in the lower area has users permissions, try unlocking that, or switch users.

Deleting locked files

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