You know how much it irritates you when you wish to move a file, and you get a message saying the file is locked and you cannot move or delete it. This might happen due to the file being in use with ...

While the reasons for locking a PDF file can be as varied as the reasons for creating it, there are essentially two main reasons to lock a PDF: to control who can access the document, or to control ...

Some Office users have recently experienced “Unknown error trying to lock file” while using Office apps like Excel, Teams, OneDrive, PowerPoint, etc. It’s even ...

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A fundamental of file systems since their inception has been their locking mechanisms. These exist so that different users and applications working on the same file (or region of a file) ...

A first-come, first-served technique for managing data in a multiuser environment. The first user to access the file or data record prevents, or locks out, other users from accessing it. After the ...

Until today, Microsoft Windows users who’ve been unfortunate enough to have the personal files on their computer encrypted and held for ransom by a nasty strain of malware called CryptoLocker have ...

So I'm troubleshooting nfslockd bombing out. I have an old RH8 nfs client that when it mounts a new box, it will work fine until it creates lock files, then it crashes lockd on the server. The test I ...