locked file

[edwardjewell]

I have several .jpg images which I cannot access.

Windows is telling me they cannot be opened, moved or deleted because they are open in PaintShop Pro. Maybe they were once upon a time but not now. How can I unlock these file so I can work on them or, failing that, just get rid of them.

[Cassel]

Is your PSP still open? Sometimes, it will do that if you have used those images and PSP can still retrieve them in the Recent files. When this happens to me, i just close PSP completely and it lets me use those other images. Try that maybe?

[ADonahoo]

It's really irritating that PSP doesn't turn loose of an image file when you close it. That shouldn't still be happening.

[brucet]

This is not just a PSP issue. Windows will often 'lock' a file that has been open in another program. Closing the program fixes the issue.

regards

[JoeB]

And just because you have closed PSP might not be enough. Sometimes a PSP process is still running in the background after you close the program. You can check that by opening Task Manager and see if there is a PSP process still running. If so, disable it.

I have never, in all my years with Windows and PSP, run into an issue where Windows or PSP has actually locked a file. But I have had times when PSP is closed but left a process running in the background.

[brucet]

I might just add that by closing the file and opening another one within PSP can also 'release' the 'locked' file.

regards