Some Office users have recently experienced “Unknown error trying to lock file” while using Office apps like Excel, Teams, OneDrive, PowerPoint, etc. It’s even ...

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 ...

To avert the problems associated with the file locking mechanism, POSIX introduced record locking via the fcntl() syscall (the pre-POSIX lockf() and flock() syscalls provide the same functionality but ...

File locking has a long tradition in computing: you or independently running software wants to make sure that a file isn’t modified or deleted when it’s needed or in use. Because macOS is Unix based, ...

There are a couple of situations where files on drives may be locked, which will prevent them from being directly removed. As such, even though you have them in the trash and choose the option to ...

Before we go ahead, rebooting the computer and clearing temporary files may not help. It has been reported several times, and that may not work. So follow these suggestions: Launch Steam with Admin ...

We've all been there: We're using code to automate something and send to a specific file, or attempting to relocate a file from one folder to another. We find the file and think it's available to open ...

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Human-readable and machine-generated lock file will specify what direct and indirect dependencies should be installed into a Python environment. Python’s builders have accepted a proposal to create a ...