FILE ERROR: The Specified file is open and in use...

FILE ERROR: The Specified file is open and in use by this or another application.
I get this error when I import a .MOV created by Live Type. All applications, except FCP, are closed. I can reboot the computer and get the same thing. It happens when I try and "render all". Thanks.

It's probably either spotlight looking at the files, or some anti-virus program thinking your render is a virus.

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I have imported a string of pictures and dragged them into the FCP timeline. I render them and it renders a certain percentage then it stops and says "File Error: The Specified file is open and in use by this or another application."
After reading this, I quit out of FCP, restarted my computer, opened FCP, nothing other program, tried to render again and same thing happened. It renders part of it then the error message pops up, then I can render again and it will do another percent then it will pop again and so on.
Suggestions, or does anyone know why this happened? Thank you very much for your time.
A

okay - don't know where you've got your scratch disc set but hopefully it's to another drive other than your boot.
The same drive where your render files should be located, ie some drive other than your boot drive.
Can you copy the jpegs over to that drive into a folder.
Delete them from your tl, delete them from your proj. Save your project. Close fcp.
If they're on your boot drive - delete them.
Reopen fcp and Reimport them from the new location.
Sorry for all the steps - but we have no idea how you have configured fcp or your level of experience. Trying to cover all the bases ...

Cannot render files. The following message appears: file error; the specified file is locked

Suddenly I cannot render any project in Final Cut 6, because a message reads: file error: the specified file is locked. Any clues on what to do?

The reason we suggest searching is there are too many possible causes and unlikely answers and FCP6 was a long time ago.
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File error: The specified file i locked. when i am trying to render a clip on the time lin e

WHen i want to render a clip on the timeline it tells me this message"file error: The specified file i locked."drive and file and they are not locked.
What setting do i check for this
because up till now the program was rendering all clips on the time lne
I have checked the the drives and files and they are unlocked.
please advise
i have to render the clip from the timeline as n export then bring it back in
annoying !

Before I ask you to check permissions on the drive you save your material and output files, try creating a new project, copy everything from the old one in it (highlight-copy-paste in new project) and save as with a new name. Does this work?

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hello,
everytime i try and save my project i keep getting the error:
File error: The specified file is locked
i went to the project and "get info" and saw that the file is locked...i also noticed that every other file in my computer is locked as well.
i just got my machine back from the repair shop...is there a setting i can use to turn off all locked files??
thanks,
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Paste the text that Neil posted,
*tell application "Finder"*
*set locked of every item of entire contents of home to false*
*end tell*
into the white area under the Record and Run buttons. Then click Compile, then the Run button.

File error - the specified file is locked, Final cut pro

file error - the specified file is locked, Final cut pro

I usually get this when I try to save a project and it isn't stored on my HD(usually external HD or RAID). Sometimes I can do a save as and save it to the desktop.
Sometimes everything is cleared up with a restart. It seems like it is a FCP7/OS developmental need which is mute because 7 is no longer supported by Apple.

File Error: The specified file is locked

Anyone ever seen this error message when trying to save a project?
I'm working in FCP 6.0.2, on a MacPro running OS 10.5.1, and I cannot save any projects. Not old ones, not Saved-as, not even new, blank, untitled ones.
I repaired permissions, trashed preferences, checked the designated folders for locked status... I can't figure it out. And, needless to say, I can't work if I can't save... help!

Well, this isn't going to help anyone with the same problem, but it seemed to fix itself. I was on the phone with Apple Pro Video support, and I went to do a save in order to retrieve the exact terminology that I was getting on the error, and the dang thing went ahead and saved with no problems.
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I got the error 'File error: the specific file is locked', when trying to render a project in FCP 7. The rushes and scratch disk are on an external hard-drive. I then went on to finder and I am unable to put anything new onto this external hard-drive. I am now trying to back up everything off the hard-drive and will go to disk utility and try repair it and I have saved the FCP project elsewhere.
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Hi
I used a CD-RW & copied a file. When I insert the CD in the slot the sequence opens. When I close & save I get "File Error: The specified file is locked."
What is wrong? Thank you, Faruk

By "within application" I mean do you open the file from the disc, change it, then click save in whatever application the file opens in? That won't work.
I think the confusion is about how CDs/DVDs work as storage media. They are not like old floppy disks, your hard disk, or a USB thumb drive. You can "save" to your hard disk or a thumb drive - but you "BURN" a CD/DVD. When you burn a CD-ROM/DVD-ROM you are making a permanent disc. You cannot 'resave' files to the disc, you cannot add more files to a disc that has been burned - it's locked in that configuration. CD-RW and DVD-RW discs are a little different - with those you still burn and make a locked disc, but with those discs you can erase them and re-burn them (and you MUST completely erase them and re-burn them, you can't just add a file). You still cannot modify files on the discs. Think about it - the ROM in CD-ROM stands for Read Only Memory, meaning you can read from the disc but not write to it (once it's burned).
Your out of disc space error could be one of two things. Either the file is too big for a DVD (single layer holds ~4.7 GB) or you've already burned something to that DVD.
You've noticed that a blank CD-ROM has a capacity of ~700 MB, right? If you insert that blank disc, copy a 2 MB file onto it, then click burn you probably expect there to be 698 MB of free space...NO. If you Get Info on that disc, you will see Space Used = 2 MB, Free Space = 0 MB. That's what I mean by locked - it's burned and you're done! NO more adding files. So when you try to save a file to the disc you've already burned, you cannot. With your hard drive, when you change a file what you're really doing is deleting the last version and writing a brand new version of the file to the hard disk. But like I said, you can only write a file to a CD/DVD when you burn it. So you can't save the modified file.
The idea with CD/DVD discs is that you burn the final versions of your files to them to archive them, send them to friends, etc. If you're working on a file, you do that on your hard disk.

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Mac Word 2008 - hyperlink message "Word cannot open the specified file"

I'm using WordMac 2008 version 12.2.5 and after following detailed instructions on how to hyperlink chapters in a Table of Contents to their respective chapters in a book, I can only get the message "Word cannot open the specified file".
Any ideas what could be wrong?
My OSX is 10.5.1.
The instructions I followed are pasted below and are copied from the Smashwords Style Guide: http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/52
START OF PASTE FROM SMASHWORDS STYLE GUIDE:
How to create a linked Table of Contents. Consider this feature in “beta.” My
thanks to Smashwords author Cheryl Anne Gardner for sharing these tips below,
which I have augmented based on my own experience adding a ToC to the Style
Guide (woo hoo!).
By adding a linked table of contents, you can help readers navigate your
document. This is especially useful for non-fiction. Most fiction doesn’t
need it. If you follow the instructions below, the ToC should work in your
EPUB, MOBI and PDF files, but it will not work in our other formats.
First, create your table of contents where you want it by typing it out. Make
sure the text is normalized just like the rest of your Smashwords’ Word
document. Example:
Contents
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Etc.
Next, we are going to create the BookMarks. In Word 2000, 2003 and 2007, the
Booksmark function is under the Insert tab. Go through your document, and at
each Chapter Start or Indexed item, you will highlight it and then select
Insert: bookmark. Name your bookmark corresponding to the Chapter/Indexed
item and then click add. It’s very important to use the first word of your
heading you’re linking to, because later on, when you add the hyperlinks,
Word displays the bookmark shortcuts in alphabetical order. With many
bookmarks, I found many of my bookmarks weren’t labeled properly, so it was
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“HowToPublishEbooks” to make it easy to locate. If you instead name it,
“publishebooks,” you’ll frazzle your brain and make mistakes.
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word, or “toc.”
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window. Select Chapter1 bookmark (or whatever you labeled it) and then click
ok. Do this procedure for every chapter and piece of matter in the table of
contents.
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document to each indexed item or Chapter start and highlight it. Then click
insert, hyperlink, and then select “Place in this document.” When the
bookmarks are showing in the main window, select the bookmark labeled
“Contents,” assuming that’s what you named your Table of Contents. Do this
for each and every chapter and or indexed item.
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hyperlink and make sure it takes you where you need to go in the document.
Advice: Word has an automatic ToC generation feature under the reference tab.
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your Smashwords files.
END OF PASTE FROM SMASHWORDS STYLE GUIDE.
I did all that as described but I still get the message "Word cannot open the specified file".
Could you help please?

This question would be better addressed to...
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I think the operative phrase from that article is...
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