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I am trying to unlock a Pages document. when I click the "lock" button in the information box, a message appears saying the file cannot be unlocked but I can make a duplicate of the file. I put the file together and would like to delete it since I no longer need it. How can I turn off the "Lock" button and delete this file?


Thank you.

iMac 21.5″ 4K, macOS 12.2

Posted on Mar 14, 2022 9:46 AM

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Posted on Mar 14, 2022 10:31 AM

Quit Pages. Instead of attempting to unlock the document from the opened document title bar, or the open document panel, click once on the file in a Finder Window and press option+cmd+i to open the information panel, then deselect the Locked button. Then reopen that document in Pages 11.2.


Of course, if this document is on a non-Apple cloud service, or a mounted Share, you may not be able to remove the lock with Finder until that document is back on your Mac startup drive.

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Mar 14, 2022 10:31 AM in response to Tiger Snowflake

Quit Pages. Instead of attempting to unlock the document from the opened document title bar, or the open document panel, click once on the file in a Finder Window and press option+cmd+i to open the information panel, then deselect the Locked button. Then reopen that document in Pages 11.2.


Of course, if this document is on a non-Apple cloud service, or a mounted Share, you may not be able to remove the lock with Finder until that document is back on your Mac startup drive.

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