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How To Unlock A Locked Desktop File
Tuesday, February 10, 2009 / System Settings
I have an eMac G4. I downloaded off net a “bass wave” to listen to and I find that it’s locked and I can not get it off my screen, when put into trash it won’t delete it as “its locked”. Question: how does one unlock a locked file? Every time I try something new it makes a copy of it and I have 6 icons on my screen now - can you help?
Chris
Locking and unlocking a file is done from the info Get Info window. To get there, right-click or [control] click on the file and select “Get Info” from the popup menu. In the General section of the Get Info window are two checkboxes. Check or uncheck the “Locked” checkbox to change the locked status of the file on your Apple computer.
Hope that helps,
Jacob
