lock a file

[andwan0]

possible to "lock" a file?

[binocular222]

What do you mean by "lock"? prevent it from rename or open or move or copy,...?

[andwan0]

What do you mean by "lock"? prevent it from rename or open or move or copy,...?

yes

[Stef123]

What do you mean by "lock"? prevent it from rename or open or move or copy,...?

yes

- I have no solution, but this turns into an interesting wish ....
You still want to be able to view the contents of the file, right? But keep it frozen to its present location and file name and content status?

[Marco]

Maybe you could change it's access rights on the fly. Provided that you're a standard (non-admin) user but you have admin credentials too.

[andwan0]

I do programming development work, and sometimes need to simulate a situation when a file is locked. There's no way to easily do this, but I found a program/tool to do this:

[LINK REMOVED -- too SPAMMY -- admin]

Which does the job well. (source code included on website).

But would be handy if XYplorer we can right-click on a file to lock... and it would highlight background row red or something....

[binocular222]

Write a script and assign to a custom toolbar button, i.e:

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run """C:\FileLocker.exe"" /I ""<curitem>"" "

For the coloring part, you can add one more line in that script to label that item, i.e:

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tag somelabel, "<curitem>", 0,0