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Removing read-only permission
Name: nil1970 Date: April 10, 2005 at 05:19:30 Pacific OS: win xp prof sp1 CPU/Ram: piv, 3ghz
Comment:
My *.doc files , MP3 files and folders having mp3 files attributes are set to read only , may be by some virus. I am not abel to delete or change the attribute of these files. kindly let me know the solution/ virus cleaner.
Name: Mechanix2Go Date: April 10, 2005 at 08:02:37 Pacific
Reply:
Can't tell if a virus did this or it's just a glitch.
Try this:
attrib /d /s -r \folder\*.*
M2
If at first you don't succeed, you're about average.
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Response Number 2
Name: jimminy Date: April 10, 2005 at 08:13:07 Pacific
Reply:
Are the files on a CD or DVD or other removeable media marked read-only? You won't be able to change the attributes if they are. Otherwise Mechanix2Go's method should work.
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Response Number 3
Name: chiponium Date: May 6, 2005 at 20:05:42 Pacific
Reply:
Yeah I'm having the same issue here. I've had XP Pro SP1 running for over a year and now noticing that I am unable to change read-only attributes. The script provided here did not work.
I tried:
attrib -r /s /d at the root of c:\ and that seemed to bring back a lot of feedback that it was not resetting a bunch of files.
Not sure if there is a patch that can fix this?? Help!
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