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How to delete Locked files in Mac

3 messages · Boris Steipe, Christofer Bogaso

Christofer Bogaso
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Hi,

I am looking for some R code, which will delete all files in a Folder
that contains both Locked and Unlocked files. There are many,
therefore i would like to delete all files programmatically in one go.

I used following code :

## "SS" is the Folder name including entire path which contains Locked
and Unlocked files.

file.remove(file.path(ss, list.files(ss)))
[1] FALSE
Warning messages:
1: In file.remove(file.path(ss, list.files(ss))) :
  cannot remove file '..... my folder path...', reason 'Read-only file system'

Also when I tried to delete a single Locked file, I am getting following error:

Warning message:
In file.remove(ss1) :
  cannot remove file '/..... my folder path...', reason 'Operation not
permitted'

I am using Mac with OS : 10.7.5

Could you please help me with correct R code?
Boris Steipe
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The command:

   system("chflags -R nouchg /path/to/your/directory")

... should unlock your files recursively in the directory. Then proceed with 
file.remove()

B.
On Apr 16, 2016, at 3:09 PM, Christofer Bogaso <bogaso.christofer at gmail.com> wrote:

            

      
      
      
    

        

      
      
    

  
  


  


      

    

    

      
      

        


  

        

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Thank you Boris. It worked.

        
On Sun, Apr 17, 2016 at 1:14 AM, Boris Steipe <boris.steipe at utoronto.ca> wrote: