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#1 Man'n'Black-4xp

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Posted 01 December 2010 - 08:21 AM

Files that I create keep reverting back to 'read only'. I do the right click-property-uncheck read only-apply... poof right back to read only. :crying: This has continued for awhile now, but was not always this way. Even though dos {command prompt} these files presist.
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Posted 01 December 2010 - 12:35 PM

Just a thought from a Linux user. Is the directory/partition those files sit on is read only. Hence the reversing of file permissions.
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Posted 01 December 2010 - 10:45 PM

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Is the directory/partition those files sit on is read only

I do not know for sure, I would not do that intentaly {to be sure!!} How do I find out ,disk management?
Can this be remendied? WITH OUT formating!!!
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Posted 02 December 2010 - 01:01 AM

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How do I find out

A directory can be confusing. That is linux talk for file or partition. Like My Documents folder. Wherever those files are sitting (My Documents, Pictures etc....) just right click on main folder that reverting docs sit in and check properties on main folder that files are sitting in. If it shows read only. Change it to read and write.

Same with a partition. Just right click empty space in partition and check properties of partition. No need to format or use disk management I should think.

The Windows users on this forum should be better at explaining this than me. :Sorry56fdg:
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Posted 02 December 2010 - 01:04 AM

I'd create new profile and see, if same problem happens there.
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Posted 02 December 2010 - 04:14 AM

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just right click on main folder that reverting docs sit in and check properties on main folder that files are sitting in. If it shows read only. Change it to read and write.
No go {I just get the wins disk clean-up/tools/quota/etc. Screen
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Posted 02 December 2010 - 04:15 AM

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The Windows users on this forum should be better at explaining this than me.
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Posted 02 December 2010 - 04:22 AM

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I'd create new profile and see, if same problem happens there.
Years I've toiled -SOL- Dos even told me piss offbugger off.
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Posted 02 December 2010 - 04:33 AM

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Posted 02 December 2010 - 04:39 AM

I've tried for years no luck, Iam afraid Iam out ideas.
I've tried dos even again no luck.
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Posted 02 December 2010 - 04:42 AM

I tried profile trick {you mean where one has to select user at log in/ boot-up?}, when that did not work I reverted back to a single profile {adminastrator}.


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Posted 02 December 2010 - 04:45 AM

Are you saying, that when you created a new profile, that profile had a very same issue?
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Posted 02 December 2010 - 04:53 AM

I guess I have more control over a Linux operating system than a Windows XP system. These are my file permissions which can be changed on another partition holding a Puppy linux install. I just right click and I can change group or all permissions to read and write if I so wish. Guess I am spoiled rotten. I guess XP is different in that also.

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Posted 02 December 2010 - 04:55 AM

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that when you created a new profile, that profile had a very same issue?
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Posted 02 December 2010 - 05:05 AM

What kind of files are we talking about here?
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Posted 02 December 2010 - 07:01 AM

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What kind of files are we talking about here?
Only the file folders themselves. The RTF, Jpeg, WMA, etc files are fine.
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Posted 02 December 2010 - 04:36 PM

View Postrokytnji, on 02 December 2010 - 01:01 AM, said:

The Windows users on this forum should be better at explaining this than me. :Sorry56fdg:
Back in DOS days [last I had was MS-DOS 6.22] the 'path' to files included the Directory where they were stored. The \ signifies the Root Directory of a drive. In 1995 when Windows 95 came out that Directory was renamed to Folder and continues today although there are some folks who haven't gotten in step with that [same as there used to be a Laptop and the later Notebooks but the terms have been blended, most Notebooks get too warm for the lap].

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Posted 02 December 2010 - 11:25 PM

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In 1995 when Windows 95 came out that Directory was renamed to Folder and continues today although there are some folks who haven't ...
Yes, but how does one get the directory/folder to behave according to ones wishes? I've even tried old school DOS {Ive only got version5.1.2600}.
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Posted 07 December 2010 - 07:55 AM

Any new ideas? I can live with this, though it is frustrating sometimes. Any takers?
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Posted 08 December 2010 - 12:05 AM

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