"cannot delete as it has locked or read-only children."

"cannot delete as it has locked or read-only children."

Cant find a fix to this online. 
Purchased this Character rig and looking to delete everything (just a duplicated rig I have).

Script editor shows for a number of character controls:
// Error: file: C:/Program Files/Autodesk/Maya2022/scripts/others/doDelete.mel line 111: Cannot delete 'MaleFullBody:MaleFullBody_ROOTGrp' as it has locked or read-only children. //"

 

Any advice would be appreciated

 

thanks

Solution:  

There could be various reasons the nodes get locked.

If you can detect which node/s is/are locked, you can execute lockNode command (see the syntax examples at the bottom of the page).

For multiple selected nodes, try this (untested):

string $sel[] = `ls -sl` ;
for ($s in $sel) {
    lockNode -l off $s ;
}

 If you want to unlock entire hierarchy, then select the top node and go Select>Hierarchy before script execution.

Afterwards, should be possible to delete.

Found Here: https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/maya-forum/quot-cannot-delete-as-it-has-locked-or-read-only-children-quot/m-p/11126882#M93186