The PDF file format gives businesses the ability to create portable documents that users can view on almost any computing platform and in virtually every major operating system. Because of its broad ...

Microsoft's Word software allows you to lock specific documents from editing with a password. This feature is designed to protect important documents from changes, but can backfire if a client ...

A new form of ransomware is being distributed through drive-by attacks, but victims can retrieve their locked files for free due to mistakes in the attack's code. Simple attacks plus user willingness ...

Imagine working on a key document in Google Drive, only to find out later that someone made unwanted changes. To prevent this ...

Unable to delete, move, or perform any action on a file because it is locked by a process? Find out which process is locking a file in Windows 11/10 using various methods discussed in this article.

File locking has a long tradition in computing: you or independently running software wants to make sure that a file isn’t modified or deleted when it’s needed or in use. Because macOS is Unix based, ...