How to find locked files only?

Question

Hi all,quick question:  is there a smart way in Bridge to only find locked items? Advanced search or filters don't seem to offer such a search.THX!Martin

Lumigraphics · Accepted Answer

This is not a correct answer and not helpful. OP, please ignore this.

You can use a script to identify locked files.

This is a bare-bones snippet of the logic used:

var sels = app.document.selections;
for(var i = 0; i < sels.length; i++){
   if(sels[i].locked == true){
      //do some action
      }
   }

This would need to be made into an actual functioning script, with whatever action (assigning a keyword or label, for example) that you wanted.

Stephen Marsh · Answer

In my tests on the Mac OS, files that are locked at the system level don't accept changes in Bridge.

So simply select all files that need to be identified and add an unused rating, label or keyword etc that you can easily search/sort/filter by. The locked files will not receive this change, so this works opposite to the original request while still allowing the files to be found by the excluded value, rather than the included value.

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