Lock-UnMatic

Lock-UnMaticSometimes, files on the Mac cannot be deleted, moved or renamed. This can be caused by insufficient access rights, or because some processes are still using these files.

Unfortunately, the Mac OS X Finder doesn't tell the user which processes exactly are causing the lock. Also, these processes are often running hidden in the background - so they can't even be quit using the Dock.

Here, Lock-UnMatic comes into play. Simply drag and drop the affected files onto the application-icon (or into the application-window), and Lock-UnMatic shows you a nice overview of all blocking processes. It's also possible to kill these processes from within the application.

Lock-UnMatic is freeware and provided under the LGPL. The latest binary version can be downloaded in the Downloads-section, as well as the sourcecode. The application is multilingual (English and German).

Filelist
Lock-UnMatic filelist

Back to projects

To top

Further information

To top

Comments (33)

Page 123456>>

18. Oktober 2011 - 02:28 Uhr

by Jeff Laramee

Lock-unmatic has never failed to identify and resolve an "in use" issue! In fact, just last week, when I thought perhaps her magic had run out, she once again delivered by revealing that the mkv file causing havoc in my trash was "in use" by a vlcplayer prefernce (.plist) file although the player application itself had been quit!

3. Dezember 2011 - 23:33 Uhr

by Paulo Pessanha

The best program to unlock files....

7. Januar 2012 - 00:43 Uhr

by Erin

Thank you very much, this program helped me identify what was stopping a file from being deleted. Unfortunately it didn't resolve the problem through Lock-unmatic, (the program accessing it was quicklookd), however when I went into quicklookd that seemed to snap it out of whatever locked loop it was in for the file I was trying to delete. Couldn't have done it without Lock-unmatic to identify what was accessing the file though! Much appreciated :)

Page 123456>>

Leave a comment, if you want to! Marked fields (*) are mandatory.


(Will not be published)




Back to projects

To top

Languages

Wählen Sie Ihre Sprache!

Categories

Recent blog entries

Recent comments