Read-only status after burning

[Randy M]

When I burn my access file to cd using adaptec cd creator 4, it becomes a read-only file. How do I get it to let me work with the file after it is burned?

 

[Douglas J. Steele]

Once you copy it back from the CD, find the file in Windows Explorer,
right-click on it, select Properties and uncheck the read-only attribute.

--
Doug Steele, Microsoft Access MVP

(no e-mails, please!)

When I burn my access file to cd using adaptec cd creator 4, it becomes a

read-only file. How do I get it to let me work with the file after it is
burned?

 

[Joan Wild]

Why don't you copy from the CD to a single folder. You can select all the
files in the folder (Ctrl-A), right-click and set the read-only off on all
of them at once. Then just move the files to their destination.

 

[Joan Wild]

Hi Joan:

Thank you for your response and I agree that your solution is the
"worst of two evils"

Gee, I thought I was providing the 'lesser of two evils', oh well.

but it is still a workaround for a problem that
didn't exist before. It seems like burning CDs has actually become a
little more difficult instead of simplier and all the suggestions I
receive seem to be workarounds instead of solutions. For example, I
used to have no problem writing to CD-RWs but now I can only write to
CD-Rs

Well that is the reason why you 'used to be able to, and no longer can'.
This is another difference between RW and R - it isn't just being able to
reuse a CD, R media will *always* be marked read-only - it has nothing to do
with your burner.

 

[Sikiru Olusanya]

-----Original Message-----
Once you copy it back from the CD, find the file in Windows Explorer,
right-click on it, select Properties and uncheck the read- only attribute.

--
Doug Steele, Microsoft Access MVP

(no e-mails, please!)
Your Access file must be read only once it is burn on CD.

This is because CDROM is Read Only indeed. Once you copy
the file to Hard disk or any other device that is
read/write it will work. If you want to continue to use
your CD then you must break the MDB file to front end and
back end. The back end must be on a read / write device
like the hard disk. You normally write to your tables in
Access but you can not write to CDRom.

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