For those who have forgotten we operate a CD ripping service (www.podserve.co.uk). At the end of each project we delete the files created along the way - often thousands of AAC or MP3 tracks. And as we also scan images for our clients from time to time we have images files to delete.
Ever since we've been using Macs this has been a smooth process, but I've noticed recently that one of our Macs is getting troublesome. Nothing major, but I sometimes have to go into the iTunes music library and manually delete some files. More troublesome is finding that files in Trash have somehow become locked. This is quite a nuisance, rather than rapidly clearing Trash the process stops. I was left with files left in Trash which I couldn't delete.
Unlocking a file with OS X is easy, just a few mouse clicks, but when you're stuck with 100+ locked files it becomes an unpleasant chore. I'm not alone in this as a Mac user client rang me saying he was having the same problem. So I did a bit of digging and found software which unlocks or locks files in a batch. I've run it a few times and it works well. It's simply called Locker and it's avaialable from vojousoftware.com.
So if you're struggling with batches of locked files, Locker is your answer.
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