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Subject: Read Only Attributes

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Name: Coos Bay Lumber
Date: March 29, 2008 at 11:14:50 Pacific
Subject: Read Only Attributes
OS: Win 98
CPU/Ram: 500/180

Comment:

Read Only Files

I came up with a situation recently, in that many of the files on my 98 computer hard drive have gone over to the attribute of "Read Only"
What happens is that I am gayly working on some file, making revisions or creating a whole new one. Everything works fine. Then a month later go back to update the phrases and it now has a -r attrib added. To which I did not add originally, for knew it was going to be revised eventially.
This sort of annoys me, as I don't know how it happened, and adds time to fix each one of these when found. It doesn't hit a whole file, nor at any specific date either, it is very random.
How can I find these? and how can I do a wholesale removal of the -r attribute?

Wm.

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Response Number 1

Name: Dan Penny
Date: March 29, 2008 at 11:28:24 Pacific
Subject: Read Only Attributes

Reply: (edit)

wholesale removal of the -r attribute
Open a command prompt window, change to the root directory of C:, and type in;
attrib -r *.* /s
Keep in mind that this "unprotects" all files, including system files. If you restrict the command to a certain extension it would be safer. ie; *.doc, *.txt, etc.

It's a good day when you learn something

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Response Number 2

Name: OtheHill
Date: March 29, 2008 at 13:39:51 Pacific
Subject: Read Only Attributes

Reply: (edit)

Are these MS Office files? If you lock the file I am guessing that may make the attribute read only.

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Response Number 3

Name: Bryco
Date: March 29, 2008 at 14:15:50 Pacific
Subject: Read Only Attributes

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and if you are taking the files off of a burned CD then they will be set as Read Only too.
Bryan

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Response Number 4

Name: DAVEINCAPS
Date: March 29, 2008 at 15:48:44 Pacific
Subject: Read Only Attributes

Reply: (edit)

If you run ATTRIB on a file it'll only show the attributes that are set. A read-only file will show R. A writable file won't show anything. You say you're getting a '-R' which doesn't make sense. Using +R or -R with the attrib command changes the attribute, it's not the attribute itself. Are you viewing the attributes through some other method? If it's actually showing a -R when using ATTRIB then maybe something else is going on.

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Response Number 5

Name: OtheHill
Date: March 31, 2008 at 08:17:40 Pacific
Subject: Read Only Attributes

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So Coos Bay, what is the status of your problem?

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Response Number 6

Name: OtheHill
Date: April 1, 2008 at 15:00:55 Pacific
Subject: Read Only Attributes

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Coos Bay, why haven't you responded?

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Response Number 7

Name: Dan Penny
Date: April 3, 2008 at 18:39:15 Pacific
Subject: Read Only Attributes

Reply: (edit)

Maybe he's set-> attrib +h coos bay lumber.*
;>)
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Response Number 8

Name: OldManClayton
Date: April 7, 2008 at 11:55:21 Pacific
Subject: Read Only Attributes

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If you're still there, and you don't like commmand prompts, simply select all the files in your hard drive, right click, properties, uncheck read-only, voila! (You may be able to merely select the root (C:) and do this, but I'm not sure.)

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