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Why are my files read only?
Name: neal Date: September 26, 2008 at 08:22:48 Pacific OS: vista business SP1 32 bit CPU/Ram: athlon64x2 6000+/4GB Product: home build
Comment:
I am running Vista with my documents, pictures and videos folders on a separate hard drived, but mapped to the folder links in vista (i.e. when I go to 'my pictures' in explorer, it re-directs to the other drive). This seemed to be working fine, but now I find my files are read only; whenever I open a picture in the photo viewer, if I choose the 'fix' option, I'm told I can't edit it because it's read only. I have gone to the 'my pictures' folder properties, which was checked as read only, unchecked it, telling it to apply that to all sub-folder/files, only to find windows re-checks it again straight away! I really don't know what to do about this and would be grateful for any help. Thanks
Name: guapo Date: September 27, 2008 at 06:21:22 Pacific
Reply:
The only thing I can think of is that Vista doesn't accept you as Administrator. If you aren't logged in as administrator or never set a password for the admin account, click start, run, type compmgmt.msc and press enter. Go to local users and groups, users, highlight administrator, click action and set password. Reset the admin password. Then log off and login using the administrator account. Do that even if the account you are using is in the administrator group.
If that doesn't work, I don't know what else it could be.
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Response Number 2
Name: dpminusa Date: November 2, 2008 at 14:10:55 Pacific
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