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#1
February 28th, 2004, 06:08 AM
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| Unlock all files in a folder I'm trying to make a back up of all my work. Halfway through copying/overwriting my back up I get a message saying that the operation could not be completed because file ____ was locked. I unlock the file and then find another file is causing the same problem. How can I run an unlock command on all files in a folder? The are not all on the top level, rather scattered around a messy folder structure. 
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#2
February 28th, 2004, 07:01 AM
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| The devil is in the details.  What operating system are you running? OS 9 can "lock" files while OS X changes a file's permission to disallow editing, or even reading. I'm guessing you're in OS 9.
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February 28th, 2004, 07:09 AM
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| I'm using Panther on a G5.
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#4
February 28th, 2004, 07:12 AM
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| Mac OS X does _not_ change file permissions when you add/remove the lock in the 'get info' window. It still uses Mac OS 9's scheme for that one (and also inherits it if you lock/unlock files in OS 9). And: No, sadly there's no easy way. Or can FileBuddy do something like that? Look for it on versiontracker or something...
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#5
February 28th, 2004, 12:30 PM
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| Do a search on http://www.versiontracker.com for files like "batch unlock" or "unlock files" and I'm sure you'll find several utilities for batch unlocking files. That should solve the problem.
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#6
February 28th, 2004, 01:00 PM
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| But it works. So it's fine.
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February 28th, 2004, 01:01 PM
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#8
March 4th, 2004, 01:49 AM
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| Golden Key worked a treat for me. Should have looked there first... Thanks very much.
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