benjamin
asked Mar 02 2017
Answer
The lock symbol appears, because your files and directories is owned by some other user or root.
To remove, change the permission for the respective file or directories via Command line as shown below.
# chown -R username.username [directoryname]
parthiban
asked Mar 03 2017
edited Oct 05 2018
How to remove the lock symbol in files and directories in linux
All of my files and directories have that lock symbol... How to remove those symbol permanently...