Re: "Read-only files

From: Steven L Umbach (n9rou_at_comcast.net)
Date: 09/29/03 

Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 00:16:30 GMT

What do you mean by read only - ntfs permissions, or file attributes? If you mean
ntfs permissions then assuming you are an administrator, you can "take ownership" and
change the file permissions from there. If you do this at the folder level for a lot
of files you will want to check the box that will change the ownership of all child
folders and files also at the same time. --- Steve

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;308421 -- Works the same for
W2K.

"Terri" <tearose@usa.net> wrote in message
news:11c701c3860f$3807e9e0$a001280a@phx.gbl...
> I have saved a lot of information on disks etc from a
> marketing group I belong to. I now want to go back and
> retreive some of this info & flyers, change info to my
> business and save. It seems all of these files are now
> marked "read-only" and I can't do anything with them. I
> haven't done anything that would make these read-only
> files except switch to windows 2000 this year. What is
> happening and how can I fix it? I have gone through
> books, help etc looking at setting permissions, but
> nothing has worked.

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