Root level folder stuck at read-only

July 18, 2007

I have an ordinary user directory that was created on this computer

under W2K, but has somehow gotten marked as read-only. Although I can

view the properties and clear the read-only flag, the directory

remains read-only. There's nothing unusual in the security attributes;

this particular directory is full access for everyone. The only thing

I can think of that's odd about it is that it's fairly large, about

10K files totalling some 6 GB. Hints?

Steve Hendrix

July 18, 2007

Re: Root level folder stuck at read-only

"Steve" <HxEngr@alltel.net> wrote in message

news:1184769107.351983.317110@i38g2000prf.googlegroups.com...

>I have an ordinary user directory that was created on this computer

> under W2K, but has somehow gotten marked as read-only. Although I can

> view the properties and clear the read-only flag, the directory

> remains read-only. There's nothing unusual in the security attributes;

> this particular directory is full access for everyone. The only thing

> I can think of that's odd about it is that it's fairly large, about

> 10K files totalling some 6 GB. Hints?

>

> Steve Hendrix

>

Windows ignores the read-only attribute of folders.

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