Unlock files

I'm kinda new at this so forgive me if I'm a bonehead.
I made a contribute site, then wanted to disable check in
check out. All the files have duplicate locked files remaining on
server and they take eons to ftp. Is there an easy way to delete
them all? I delete on server and they mysteriously are still
there...I first thought it was a DWMX ftp problem, but same deal
with GoLive.
Yipes! Any help is appreciated.

Thanks, Sorry so slow on to other things, but the funny thing
is they are shadow locked files, they do not exist in my DW site
manager only on the server. I delete on server, reload files and
they mysteriously appear again. It still takes eons to load these
pages and they error out every time saying pages did not load, yet
all the changes are uploaded. I'm thinking I'll ask the server to
clean sweep delete all files and try again.

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