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IndianSteveJobs

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Original poster
Jun 4, 2010
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India
Hi,

Some days back I copied some of my video files to my External Harddrive. Yesteday I tried to play them in VLC player and QuickTime. I got error message something tellign like "File is locked. Currently used by Mac."
I tried copying that onto my Mac, the copy little progressed but at the end while it was getting finished, the same error was shown. Suprisingly the file icon on the Harddrive also changed.
I went to Shell and tried to change the permission but no success.
How to get rid of this problem? Is it because of mac indexing of files?

Thanks in advance.
Chandra
 
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