I have hundreds of plist lock file's at zero bytes

In my home library Preferences folder, I'm seeing literally hundreds of plist files ending in "lockfile" - all taking up zero bytes. Can I delete these?
I have over 700 plist files in total, about 1/4 being these taking up zero bytes. Anyone know what these are?
Thanks,
Larry

Normal. See:
http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-20093292-263/lockfiles-and-other-plist-file -subtypes-in-os-x-lion/
Regards.

Similar Messages

Pdf file created with zero bytes

Hi Team,
We have requirement of sending pdf file to webservice and after we will process that pdf file using Abbyy reader. We have issue in getting the pdf file content.
In web service, pdf file content is received with header information and body content..while creating, pdf file is created with empty...We have used C# WCF webservice..For more information, kindly refer the C# forum code: https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/vstudio/en-US/b6a05717-2b17-4408-a606-ccbe104e132 4/need-webservice-code?forum=wcf

In your browser make sure the default PDF Viewer is Adobe Reader

SQL Loader is creating a log file of 0 (zero) bytes.

Hello!!
I am using SQL Loader to load data from a .txt file to a Oracle table.
Following is the control file:
LOAD DATA
CHARACTERSET UTF8
CONTINUEIF LAST != "|"
INTO TABLE product_review_dtl
FIELDS TERMINATED BY '||' TRAILING NULLCOLS
indiv_review_id INTEGER EXTERNAL,
pid INTEGER EXTERNAL,
merchant_review_id INTEGER EXTERNAL,
merchant_user_id CHAR "SUBSTR(:merchant_user_id,1,20)",
review_status_txt CHAR "SUBSTR(:review_status_txt,1,20)",
review_create_date DATE "YYYY-MM-DD",
helpful_votes_cnt INTEGER EXTERNAL,
not_helpful_votes_cnt INTEGER EXTERNAL,
review_source_txt CHAR "SUBSTR(:review_source_txt,1,30)",
overall_rating_num INTEGER EXTERNAL,
comment_txt CHAR(4000) "SUBSTR(:comment_txt,1,4000)",
nickname CHAR "SUBSTR(:nickname,1,30)",
headline_txt CHAR "SUBSTR(:headline_txt,1,100)",
confirmed_status_grp INTEGER EXTERNAL "TO_NUMBER(SUBSTR(TO_CHAR(:confirmed_status_grp),1,5))",
location_txt CHAR "SUBSTR(:location_txt,1,100)"
Some records are loaded. A log file is also created but it is empty. Can you help me find out why the log file is empty?

user525235 wrote:
Hello Folks!!
I have 2 input files with different encoding (apparent in case of special characters).
File 1 loads successfully. For File 2 loader gives a memory fault while loading. Hence the log file is of 0 bytes. I still have no clue as to why is the loader giving a memory fault. It is not an OS level memory fault as analysed by the OS team. Please help!
Thanks in advance :)Unknown OS
Unknown database version
No details about what import command was used or the options specified
No samples / details of input files or their encoding
No details about exact error message of "memory fault"
No help is possible ;-)
Srini

Many of my files are empty (zero bytes)

Why are my files blank? And when i open iCloud it is a mess.

Not sure if this is the same issue I am experiencing: I upgraded to Mavericks and the new iWorks suite recently on all my machines. I notice that in iCloud, I have files stating "zero bytes" on my MacMini, while on the MacBook Pro, the files are "normal size" and can be opened. iCloud is synching the files, but not transferring data. KeyNote, Pages are working well, but Numbers doesn't transfer the data to the other machines connected to iCloud, only the file name shows up. iCloud preference is selected to sync Numbers (and the other apps). This was not happening until after the upgrade. Any ideas?

I have hundreds of short sound files in iTunes library

Anyone know what applications use these. They appear to be sound effects (Sticky Keys Stuck). I'm trying to wittle my library down below 25K tracks for iTunes Match.
Duty First!
sgtbill

There are many threads about this issue on here, but this one is probably the most informative.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3505359?start=0&tstart=0

Folder says 62gb but files inside are Zero bytes

Hola guys.
I usually come here with some weird issues related to FCS but this is a bit different and I'm not sure where to put it. I have some Pro Res HQ footage in a folder that's about 62 GB combined. I was converting them through Compressor 4 to Pro Res LT but I canceled the batch because I only needed specific files... Then I noticed that 2 files wer unrecognized and didn't have either a preview or a file size. I went back to Compressor and converted the files I needed and left the office. I came back to find that multiple files are now unrecognized and without file size... The folder still says 62 GB but the files that still work are 32 GB in total size therefore the rest of the footage and their sizes are still be calcualted... what do?

That link was extremely helpful.
I have managed to get the fonts working on my windows machine by doing the following:
1) download the Mac OSX package of fondu and install it:
http://fondu.sourceforge.net/index.html#Downloads
2) open a terminal window on the mac and convert the fonts using fondu:
cd ~/Library/Fonts
/usr/local/bin/fondu Berli*
that 2nd command converts all the fonts starting with 'Berli' into pfb fonts. Not sure what these are exactly but I think they're unix fonts.
3) Move all the resulting pfb and bdf files to my windows machine.
4) Download and install the trial version of CrossFont on my windows machine and use it to covert the files from pfb to otf.
5) use the font control panel to install the resulting otf fonts.

How do I enable opening firefox from two different computers sharing the same home directory without having to delete a lock file (linux).

I just don't want to have to delete a lock file - which has a purpose - in order to use firefox simultaneously from two locations on the network - where the home directory, i.e. .mozilla directory - is located

You need to use two separate profiles if you want to have two Firefox instances open at the same time.
See also http://www.mozilla.org/unix/remote.html

IMac went crazy, no fixed but many files become zero bytes in size

I don't even know where to start. I guess first I'll list some background information:
My wife and I share a iMac which she uses it as her workstation for illustration and I use it as Plex Media Server and Transmission etc. So she would normally use it by day, but my account would be always logged in in the background and I use SSH and Remote Desktop to control my account.
And since the ultimate symptom are I don't how many zero byte files, here are some configuration information.
1) iMac 27" late 2012 with 128 GB Apple SSD and 3TB HDD
2) A custom fusion drive with 1 logical volume consist of 3 physical volumes.
3) The configuration is odd because I wanted to use both fusion drive and BOOTCAMP. So there is a BOOTCAMP volume as well.
This happened in the past couple of days. At first my wife was complaining about loosing wifi connection and keyboard connectivity problems. For wifi I typically instructed her to turn wifi on and off or try to reboot the computer. For the keyboard problem, it turned out to be a software problem not Bluetooth because disabling a third part IME seemed to resolve the problem.
Then at one night, she accidentally unplug the iMac while it's on (it's always on, and my wife never reboot or shut it down unless I intervene). No she freaked out as she couldn't remember if she saved her illustration work. Luckily she did. And at this point of time, after booting it up, the PSD file was intact and the latest version. Okay, we moved on. I didn't worry about too much about the power failure because this happened before. And normally Disk Utility in Recovery HD would fix the problem.
Then on the day after, it started loosing sound. So I tried to fix it. Now when I tried to login, it said "Cannot find "login" keychains". Choose "Restore to Default", doesn't work and Finder was keeping crashing and relaunching. Hopping a restart would fixed but it didn't. Then I tried all regular maintaining techniques include fix disk, fix permission, clear all sorts of caches with OnyX. Because there was a power failure, the disk did need some repairing and according to Disk Utility, it appeared OK now, but the problem was still there.
Then I created a new user, works seemingly fine. Deleted my old account and created it agin with the same UID, same problem. Almost all the applications failed to launch except "Notes" and "Maps". It seemed to be a user problem but using the same user ID but new Home folder, the problem came back. This baffled me. I never came across something like this.
Then I hoped upgrade system to 10.10.3 would help (it was 10.10.2). And it did. Now finder can open. Keychains still missing and could be reset to default. But at least I could open Keychains Access now. And from there I created a new login keychain. And my wife's account didn't have this keychain issue, I assumed the situation was under control.
Now, the wired thing happened. My wife fired up Photoshop, it's reporting problems loading preferences. Moved preferences file else where, it said unexpected EOF. Looked it up and ended LAYOUT.psp or something became zero bytes. I deleted it and let photoshop create default one. Now photoshop works. But the PSD my wife panicked about earlier became zero byte.
Verified the disk again, appears to be OK, again, appears to be OK.
The only thing worth mentioning was the amount of something called "Metadata Volume" and "double redundancy". It says "The Logical Volume Family has a 4482 MB Metadata Volume double redundancy". I'm not sure whether or not this is usual.
Now I'm trying to recovery all the PSD files on the disk with a Data Recovery App. But while I'm waiting I found some other files now its zero bytes. This really worries me. And I'm still not sure what cause the problem or even what the problem was or is. I suspect it has something to do with fusion drive as when I do rsync -W --inplace, the speed is normally 20~30 which is a bit low to me.
If you read this far, I really appreciate it. I'm sorry it's so long and unclear. It's because its like nothing I encountered before and the problem is hidden with many little issues on the surface.
But I will try to summarise my question:
1) What could possibly be the root cause of those problems
2) What happened to those files.
3) Is there anyway to recovery them other than standing all the sectors of the disk
4) Would it be better off with fusion drive.

I don't even know where to start. I guess first I'll list some background information:
My wife and I share a iMac which she uses it as her workstation for illustration and I use it as Plex Media Server and Transmission etc. So she would normally use it by day, but my account would be always logged in in the background and I use SSH and Remote Desktop to control my account.
And since the ultimate symptom are I don't how many zero byte files, here are some configuration information.
1) iMac 27" late 2012 with 128 GB Apple SSD and 3TB HDD
2) A custom fusion drive with 1 logical volume consist of 3 physical volumes.
3) The configuration is odd because I wanted to use both fusion drive and BOOTCAMP. So there is a BOOTCAMP volume as well.
This happened in the past couple of days. At first my wife was complaining about loosing wifi connection and keyboard connectivity problems. For wifi I typically instructed her to turn wifi on and off or try to reboot the computer. For the keyboard problem, it turned out to be a software problem not Bluetooth because disabling a third part IME seemed to resolve the problem.
Then at one night, she accidentally unplug the iMac while it's on (it's always on, and my wife never reboot or shut it down unless I intervene). No she freaked out as she couldn't remember if she saved her illustration work. Luckily she did. And at this point of time, after booting it up, the PSD file was intact and the latest version. Okay, we moved on. I didn't worry about too much about the power failure because this happened before. And normally Disk Utility in Recovery HD would fix the problem.
Then on the day after, it started loosing sound. So I tried to fix it. Now when I tried to login, it said "Cannot find "login" keychains". Choose "Restore to Default", doesn't work and Finder was keeping crashing and relaunching. Hopping a restart would fixed but it didn't. Then I tried all regular maintaining techniques include fix disk, fix permission, clear all sorts of caches with OnyX. Because there was a power failure, the disk did need some repairing and according to Disk Utility, it appeared OK now, but the problem was still there.
Then I created a new user, works seemingly fine. Deleted my old account and created it agin with the same UID, same problem. Almost all the applications failed to launch except "Notes" and "Maps". It seemed to be a user problem but using the same user ID but new Home folder, the problem came back. This baffled me. I never came across something like this.
Then I hoped upgrade system to 10.10.3 would help (it was 10.10.2). And it did. Now finder can open. Keychains still missing and could be reset to default. But at least I could open Keychains Access now. And from there I created a new login keychain. And my wife's account didn't have this keychain issue, I assumed the situation was under control.
Now, the wired thing happened. My wife fired up Photoshop, it's reporting problems loading preferences. Moved preferences file else where, it said unexpected EOF. Looked it up and ended LAYOUT.psp or something became zero bytes. I deleted it and let photoshop create default one. Now photoshop works. But the PSD my wife panicked about earlier became zero byte.
Verified the disk again, appears to be OK, again, appears to be OK.
The only thing worth mentioning was the amount of something called "Metadata Volume" and "double redundancy". It says "The Logical Volume Family has a 4482 MB Metadata Volume double redundancy". I'm not sure whether or not this is usual.
Now I'm trying to recovery all the PSD files on the disk with a Data Recovery App. But while I'm waiting I found some other files now its zero bytes. This really worries me. And I'm still not sure what cause the problem or even what the problem was or is. I suspect it has something to do with fusion drive as when I do rsync -W --inplace, the speed is normally 20~30 which is a bit low to me.
If you read this far, I really appreciate it. I'm sorry it's so long and unclear. It's because its like nothing I encountered before and the problem is hidden with many little issues on the surface.
But I will try to summarise my question:
1) What could possibly be the root cause of those problems
2) What happened to those files.
3) Is there anyway to recovery them other than standing all the sectors of the disk
4) Would it be better off with fusion drive.

Zero byte deleted files

Hi All,
Big problem! I used to be able to salvage files with Filer after deletion,
however, when files are deleted or overwritten from a Windows XP PC, the
salvage utility in Filer does find the files, BUT it is all with zero bytes
and it is then not possible to salvage those files. Is there any other way
to salvage such files or do a repair before salvaging? The Netware version
is NWSB 6.0
Any help will be much appreciated,
Ben

Are you sure that are files and not maybe directories or dfs junctions?
Did you delete those files or just replace by empty DBs? If the later
they should be there in the directory and obviously can not be salvaged
- if those empty DBs were deleted after emptying did they have more
than 0 bytes before deleting?
If they did only have 0 bytes before deletion (not before emptying the
DB) I think you can not regain any info from this files - so just
forget them or if they are not already deleted, delete them now. Any
info could only be retrieved from a valid backup before the filesize
was reduced to 0 bytes.
If nothing does help and you have NSS volumes, go to the NSS repair
options like nss /poolrebuild=poolname and be sure to have a valid
backup of the pool before starting this. With TFS volumes you should
use vrepair instead. But this would only help, if your files were not
already damaged by your clipper application under XP by writing 0 bytes
files.
If the later is the case try the different compatibility settings for
your program under XP, maybe you have luck in Win98 compatibility mode.
W. Prindl
Ben Bodenstein wrote:
> On Thu, 02 Nov 2006 07:48:41 GMT, Barry Schnur wrote:
>
> > I haven't seen that on my xp workstations -- so I'm wondering if
> > there is an additional variable involved here.
> >
> > Which client version? What file types and how were they deleted?
>
> Thanks for your reply Barry.
>
> I am using Client Version 4.91 and the file types are Clipper dbf's
> that have been overwritten with empty dbf's (not zero byte files
> though, just empty dbf's with the dbf structures).
>
> Question is: Is there anything I can try like a Vrepair or NSS Volume
> repair to try and get the file sizes back in order to salvage it?
> I am not sure if vrepair is still available on Netware 6, maybe you
> can help in this regard.
>
> Thanks,
> Ben

Moved files and both copied and original now Zero Bytes

I copied around 20gb of video files from one external disk to another only to find that both the original files and the newly created ones are now showing file sizes of Zero Bytes and are unplayable. The copying operation looked like it worked fine whilst Finder was working on the files. Any ideas how I can get these working again?

Hope you have a backup! The only way I can see that happening is if the originals were already zero. Copying should not affect the source. How many files?

Copy doesn't work and creates zero bytes files that I can't delete.

After installing Yosemite (I am now using version 10.10.1) I had problems copying files.
Sometimes (not always) it doesn't copy files from a folder to another using the simple cmd-c cmd-v procedure. Even if both folders are on the desktop. It creates many empty files (white icons, zero bytes) named as my files, but the copy isn't happening.
The main problem is that I cannot delete the files anyhow. If they are in a folder I can delete the whole folder and empty the trash.
It doesn't happen everytime, but yesterday I had the same problem copying a few videos to the desktop and I can't get rid of them (because I obviously can't delete the desktop folder...).
Can anybody help me? I need to be able to delete those zero bytes files that are now on my desktop.
I tried to drag them into a folder but it wouldn't let me. As well, I tried to copy the same files to the desktop to see if they disappeared, but the new files copied were renamed with 2 (ex. I had the zero byte file called IMG_0705.MOV on my desktop. I tried to paste the same file and it appeared named as IMG_0705 2.MOV).
I don't know what to do...
Thanks

Take it to an Apple store or AASP. How much it will cost will depend on their determination of the problems. To bad you didn't purchase extended AppleCare. No you don't get your money back for purchasing Lion.

TS1717 unes, i have windows 8, i get the message, "the itunes Library .itl file is locked, on a locked disk, or you do not have write permission for this file. how did this happen, how do i fix this?

the message"The itun, library .itl file is locked, on a locked disk, or you do not have write permission for this file". i have windows 8. how why did this happen? how do i correct this and prevent another occurance? I am able to access itunes on my i5, ipad, and my old i4 that i use solely as my ipod now. At the time problem occurred, i was connected to ext hard drive that hold over 190GB music, to add to my library. I am now unable to add to my library using my laptop. any advise/help is greatly appreciated!!

I just had the same problem and was able to fix it after trying a couple of things I found after a search.
The solution that worked for me:
Find iTunes folder - it should be in C:\Program FIles (x86) or similar depending on your operating system
Right click the entire folder (no need to open it) and click properties
Click the security tab
Click edit and highlight the user name under which you logged in.
Click the box next to full in the allow column, which should check everything
Click apply
Open iTunes
This worked for me.

How To Fix: "The iTunes Library.itl file is locked, on a locked disk, or you do not have write permission for this file."

I can't reopen my iTunes after I have to force quit when it does not respond. I get this message:
"The iTunes Library.itl file is locked, on a locked disk, or you do not have write permission for this file."
I've read to do the solutions. I right clicked on both the iTunes and Music folder and went to info for each. On both the lock at the bottom of the Get Info was locked. All of my users including admin can read and write all files within those folders. They are even a shared folder. I clicked on the lock to unlock it, typed in my admin password, and went to the gear to apply to all files inside. After doing that I keep getting the saved message.
I tried another way that I've found online to move my ituneslibrary folder to the desktop and then open my iTunes. In theory the iTunes is supposed to ask for where the iTunes library is. Once that is prompted you quit iTunes and drag the iTunes Library folder back to the folder from the desktop and reopen iTunes to apprently solve the problem. However, when I move the iTunes Library file to the desktop and try to reopne iTunes the icon just keeps bouncing and when I right click the application does not respond.
This problem is only resolved if I restart/shut down my macbook pro which is a 15-inch Core 2 Duo with intel. It will be 5 years old in December. I currently have Lion and the latest iTunes 10.5. This problem started in late December.

If you hold down the option key when starting iTunes, it will allow you to select a library or create a new one.
You can create a new one, and then add all of your iTunes music back in by simply dragging the old iTunes music file onto iTunes.
There are more detailed instructions at http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1451#
It will show you how to re-build your iTunes database file.

HT2674 I have an iMac purchased in May 2011. OSX Lion 10.7.3. I deleted backup file from the external hard drive. Now, the trash can will not empty some of the files deleted. File folder: "Core Services" contains a locked file: "boot.efi". It will not

I have an iMac purchased in May 2011. OSX Lion 10.7.3. I deleted backup file from the external hard drive which operates from Time Machine.
Now, the trash can will not empty some of the files deleted from the backup harddrive.
The trash contains-- File folder: "Core Services" which contains a locked file: "boot.efi".
It will not delete.
How do I get the trash can empty of these files?

Yes, the Old Master file has a folder for each year where I find all photos from that specific year. I am attaching a screen shot of the file.
In the meantime i have managed to download all photos (it did not download any video files though in mpg, avi, 3gp, m4v,mp4 and mov format) to a new iphoto library. Unfortunately the photos are quite mixed and often doubled up. I ma considering to purchase iphoto library which checks all duplicates in iphoto. this will save me a lot of time. What do you think?

ITunes won't open, I get this message: The iTunes Library .itl file is locked, on a locked disk or you do not have write permission for this file.

iTunes won't open.
I get this message: The iTunes Library .itl file is locked, on a locked disk or you do not have write permission for this file.

This may indicate a corrupt preference file with iTunes trying to open the wrong location. Try holding down shift as you launch iTunes then choose the correct file, normally <User's Music>\iTunes\iTunes Library.itl. See iTunes: How to open an alternate iTunes Library file or create a new one.
tt2

I have hundreds of plist lock file's at zero bytes

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for