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Lock-UnMatic

Lock-UnMatic Sometimes, 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).

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Posted by Jeff Laramee

18. Oktober 2011 - 02:28 Uhr

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!

Posted by Paulo Pessanha

3. Dezember 2011 - 23:33 Uhr

The best program to unlock files....

Posted by Erin

7. Januar 2012 - 00:43 Uhr

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 :)

Posted by septic

27. März 2012 - 17:08 Uhr

nice! you got me too!

Posted by Dan Gambocorto

28. April 2012 - 08:53 Uhr

Very handy, but the ability to add files that are in the trash would be extremely useful, since thats where I usually discover a file is locked to begin with.

Posted by Oliver Matuschin

29. April 2012 - 13:45 Uhr

Hello!

There is a menu entry called "Show -> Files in trash". This should do the job.

Best regards
Oliver Matuschin

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