Accessing a locked folder

I had to reinstall mac since my hard drive failed and my old files from my old account are still on the computer but i cant access them because they are locked to the old user, is there anyway for me to access them? I have the password and everything but it wont let me get into the files

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Microsoft office access record-locking information

Hello,
Maybe is a stupid question but i didn't saw question similar to this and I'm concerned about my privacy. Yesterday when i logged in to my skype account I found out that in Users-App Data-Skype- there were created a small file called 'microsoft office access record-locking information'. I'm not exactly sure what this means, because it is happening for a first time. I'm not using Microsoft account for logging in into Skype, also I did not gave any access to another computers, especially to Skype folder.Also after logging off from Skype, this file is not automatically deleted. Can somebody explain me should I concern about something?

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I dont know how to post my own question, but see that there is a response to this question within the last 8 mins.
what my question is (and it must be ridiculasly simple but i cant find it) is how do i get to the page where i can make calls...where my contacts are and such...from the skype home page? i am in prague, using skype from here...am logged into my account but it is just all of my account info, history and such. there is no icon to make a call. i have clicked on everything to see where the option is to simply make a call and...nothing...
this happened before with my husband when he was using skype on windows 8 for the first time. this computer has windows xp so it ought to be straight forward...not so far.
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It’s still straight forward but not using your Account page on web. You need to install Skype application on your computer and login to this application with your account details.
http://www.skype.com/en/download-skype/
See also this:
https://support.skype.com/en/faq/FA11098/getting-started-with-skype-windows-desktop

What is Lock folder doing ?

I would like to lock a folder so that I can open the folder and the documents inside it but not alter anything
If you Ctr Click the folder , then press Get Info, you can lock the folder
But what is it doing ?
I noticed that I could not add new files to the folder. That is all.
I do not want to used complicated procedures such as with Disk Utilities

Bomiboll wrote:
Yes sir. That's the situation. I can edit it, I can save it, and to the same place.
It means that this is a flaw in Mac OS.
No, it just means you don't understan Posix permissions and the Access Control Entries.
Locking a folder doesn't do anything but Lock the folder. Access to the contents are still controlled by the Posix permissions and the ACEs. Setting a folder to Locked in Get Info sets the uchg flag. That will prevent you from changing the Folder, but not it's contents, which still have the same settings as they had before you Locked the folder. You can override the delete, but you can't rename or move it (which are the same things in unix), or add items into it. If you want to lock all the files inside, you have to select them all and lock them.
Using the shell,
chflags -R uchg /Users/username/Documents/My\ Locked\ Folder/
In unix, a folder is really nothing but a part of the full name of the file. E.g.
/Users/username/Documents/My\ Locked\ Folder/myFile.txt
A better way to achieve what you want is to set it to Read Only for User, Group, and Others
In the Finder, Get Info on the folder and unlock the padlock on the Permissions section.
Set yourself to read only.
Set the group(s) and everyone to no more than Read Only.
Cick the Gear icon and choose Apply to Enclosed.
In the shell,
chmod -R -w /Users/username/Documents/My\ Locked\ Folder/
The uappend flag is more like what you want. It allows adding to the folder, but not editing the contents.
So, you could lock the folder and set it to not let you change the contents at all with:
chflags uchg,uappend /Users/username/Documents/My\ Locked\ Folder/
However, some programs will allow you to authenticate to make changes to the files, even with those settings.
Then there's Access Control Lists which further add to the complexity. This help page for Tinker Tool System is a brief introduction. If you search for OS X ACL you will find lots of articles on how to set them.

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