Re: [MacPerl] Unlocking files

["Matthew Phillips" <kohsuan@psychosphere.net>]

Just to cover ALL the bases:
Did you hold the option key down? I mean did you keep your finger on that
option button, and keep it there until the operation is totally finished? If
you don't keep it there for a prologed period of time while you are emptying
the trash, it is as if you didn't even press it in the first place. I know I
have been confounded by this niceiety before when trying to delete larger
locked files.

Don't just tap that button, keep it there!
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>From: Max Haas <haasm@ubaclu.unibas.ch>
>To: Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>, "mac-perl@iis.ee.ethz.ch"
<mac-perl@iis.ee.ethz.ch>
>Subject: Re: [MacPerl] Unlocking files
>Date: Tue, Dec 15, 1998, 9:19 AM
>

>On 15.12.1998 at 7:57 Uhr, pudge@pobox.com (Chris Nandor)
>wrote:
>
>> At 01.47 -0500 1998.12.15, Richard Christensen wrote:
>> >I have tried holding down the option key and this doesn't
>work for these
>> >file.  The finder doesn't complain, it just doesn't
>delete them.
>> 
>> I would run Disk First Aid, then rebuild the desktop, etc. 
>I cannot think
>> of any situation when you should be unable to unlock a
>file.  To me, that
>> sounds like something is broken.  I hope I am wrong. 
>Unless the fix is
>> easy and painless, then I hope I am right.  :)
>> 
>> Good luck,
>> 
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>Concerning 'I would run Disk First Aid': I'm not quite sure
>what 'locked' is and I don't understand much of the MacOS.
>But in MCL (Macintosh Common Lisp) there's a function to
>unlock files. I print here the documentation: 
>
>"UNLOCK-FILE file [Function] unlocks file. If the file was
>previously locked, it will now be unlocked, so that it can
>be written to. If the file was already unlocked, no action
>is taken."
>
>_When_ there is such a function there must be a trap or
>whatever in the MacOS. Can you ask a MacOS guru or take a
>look of IM?
>
>Max
>
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