In case you already didn't know, I thought some of you might find this info useful...found it at another forum:
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How to trick NTFS file locks when nothing else works:
I recently had a big problem with a huge amount of files that were locked in a read-only state.
No software on the internet solved my problem.
It was impossible to remove the read-only attribute on them.
Finally I came up with an idea:
Take a USB-disk, format it with FAT32 and copy the files.
Then use the attrib-command to remove attributes.
Code:
attrib -r -s -a -h /S /D <path>
Copy the files back to their original place.
Hope it can save someone elses valuable time.
I just spent 8 hours of troubleshooting.