hOW DO I ELIMINATE "READ-ONLY" ON ALL MY FILES??

[Linda]

In Student & Teacher 2003 versioin, for some reason all my files are turning
up "read-only" on my home computer. Can anyone tell me how I can turn them
back to just regular files so I can continue to edit them. Thank You so much.

 

[Guest]

Have you transferred them to your computer using CD or DVD? Writing files to
a CDR or DVDR makes them read only. You need to transfer the files to your
local HDD (if not already done), then select them all in Windows Explorer,
right-click, select Properties and clear the Read Only attribute.

 

[Linda]

Thank you terry for answering my problem. I'm not very good with computers,
presume HDD is the hard drive. Not familar with windows explorer. But I did
right click the file and went to properties. Read only is not checked off.

 

[Linda]

I did find where it was checked, but it won't let me uncheck it

 

[Rob van Albada]

Acitvate the Command Processor (i.e. open a DOS window) and type the
following:


attrib -r *.* [RETURN]

or:

attrib -r *.* /s [RETURN]

-r sets the read-only bit to OFF.
The /s parameter makes attrib to look in all subdirectories as well.

Type:

attrib /? [RETURN]

to get an overview of the attrib commands.

Hopefully this will work.

Kind regards,

Rob.

 

[Guest]

From a fresh reboot, go straight to Windows Explorer BEFORE opening anything
else and then right-click and clear the Read Only attribute.

terry