[jdoran]

Hi guys,
I have a problem. I was just given an external harddrive full of mp3s by a friend of the family . I was going through them when I found some albums I did not want. I moved them to the trash and then later tried to empty the trash. Unfortunately, I was told that the items could not be deleted because they were locked. I looked at the files. They have a small padlock beside them. I then tried to move them back to the hardrive. Instead of moving from the trash back to the hardrive, a copy was made and now I have two groups of locked mp3s that I don't want. Any idea on how to unlock these files. Much appreciation.

[B Gallagher]

Select all files. Right click > Get Info. At the bottom of the General tab, there is an option 'locked'. Unselect it, and you should be fine.

[B Gallagher]

Select all files. Right click > Get Info. At the bottom of the General tab, there is an option 'locked'. Unselect it, and you should be fine.

[B Gallagher]

Select all files. Right click > Get Info. At the bottom of the General tab, there is an option 'locked'. Unselect it, and you should be fine.

[Apfhex]

Hold down option when you empty the trash, it should force the locked files to delete.

[B Gallagher]

Woohoo! First triple post!!!