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What is the difference between the read-only attribute and the access control list read-only flag on Windows?
I'm looking for a technical answer, not a general answer, pertaining to how Windows actually handles these properties. For example, there are some programs that recognize the read-only attribute and ...
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moved folders to windows 8 and all are now read only
This hasn't been an issue to use these on the new laptop, except for the fact that I cannot access my pictures and music and video files to sync my iPad or iPhone with iTunes. Each folder has to be ...
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How do I make a document fully read only on Open Office
When I use the security setting and set the password, I can still overwrite my original document. What am I doing wrong?
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Folder always gets read-only. even when I change it [duplicate]
It's the first folder on my hard drive, every other folder works, just this folder gets always read-only. When I untick the option it commits the changes, but is read-only afterwards again?
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Permission denied for other users than root
I have a directory called sai at /var/www/html/. I gave permission initially 755 and tried 777. I have loggen in as user nitish. When I tried to edit the files , it says the file is read-only. But if ...
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How can I encrypt a read-only adobe acrobat file?
My brokerage kindly decided to mark my account statement as read-only for my benefit. But, now when I open the statement in Acrobat Pro X in Windows 7, the Encrypt option is grayed out. How can I make ...
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how to build read-only linux system ? [closed]
My system is Debian 5 kernel version is 2.6.26-2-686 on small box just to do some tasks the out put from df -lh :
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda3 663M ...
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Windows 7 - Cannot remove read-only attribute
I am logged in on my admin account. When I was trying to edit a python project using PyCharm (an IDE), it told me that the folder was marked as read-only (square box).
I open the folder in explorer, ...
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Difference between an executable and data file format?
A few quick things out of the way as I know these type of questions often have a malicious background.
I am not trying to execute something in a file format (jpg)
I am not trying to simply achieve ...
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Assigning limited permissions for a temporary domain user to access network systems
I have set up a small Server 2008 R2 domain network at home so I can learn and practice administering it.
Lets say I want to create a temporary user account to allow an auditor access to all files on ...
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Excel 2007 not allowing users to enter 'Password to modify'
We have several Excel 2007 spreadsheets that have a password to modify set in them. Recently however they have not been allowing users to enter a password and have just been opening as Read Only ...
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How to make a filesystem readonly by default?
I am not talking about tweaking fstab or about the use of the "mount" program... I was thinking of tune4fs, btrfstune and the like : I'd like to know if you've heard of any filesystem being able to ...
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Windows folder has readonly attribute that cannot be removed
I have a zip file containing Eclipse workspace. When I unzip it all the extracted folders have read only attribute set to true. When I uncheck "read only" in properties dialog and click apply the ...
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Mount a drive read-write without remounting
I have a flash drive mounted in read-only mode. I cannot unmount it, but I want to be able to write to it. I tried mounting it in a second place but that didn't work. It is in use, so I cannot unmount ...
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Make some cells in an Excel sheet read-only?
I have an Excel 2010 file that I do not want to have a password for, but I do want to lock certain cells so that I do not accidentally edit them.
Can certain cells be made read-only without a ...
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Can't edit files in Eclipse even though not read-only
This is such an amateur question I'm embarrassed I even have to ask.
In Eclipse, sometimes I can't edit a file. I can open it, but it behaves as it if it's a read-only file—typing has no ...
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Format USB flash drive as readonly [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Make a USB drive read only
Can you make a flashdrive read-only?
Is there any way to format a USB partition as readonly? Obviously any operating system could re-format ...
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What do the readonly attributes in diskpart really mean?
I am wondering exactly what the meaning is of the "Read-only" disk and volume attributes that you can twiddle in diskpart on Windows 7. I am trying to set up an external USB drive as an installation ...
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How do I prevent Excel from locking files by default?
When I double-click on a CSV file on a network share, the file is opened in Microsoft Excel (which is what I want). However, Excel assumes that I'm going to modify the file, and that everyone else is ...
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How to mount an external USB drive on Linux read-only?
I need to restore a directory on a Linux (CentOS) file server from an external USB drive. It's the only copy and I don't want to risk any of the data being altered on it by some mistake with rsync or ...
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RTF File Opens as Read Only from Document Management System (Does not happen for all users)
We have a third party system in place that as one part of its duties hosts RTF files that a user can open, make changes to, and save back into the document management system.
Recently we have begun ...
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Is it possible to make certain disk sectors readonly
Is it by anyway possible to make certain disk sectors read-only? (The disk being specifically a USB Flash drive). Also the possibility of repartitioning the drive and making one partition read-only ...
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Make a read only “view” of a network folder
I feel like this should be easy and I'm missing something simple.
We have a network folder A that must be full access to a user to support a legacy application. However, we also need the user to be ...
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Read-only file system RHEL
I am using a RHEL 5.5 on my PC. I was playing around with chmod and chown. suddenly my home folder become read-only. all the folders in /home/goutham/, where goutham is username, became read-only. I ...
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Can you make a flashdrive read-only? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Make a USB drive read only
I'm trying to my flash-drive read-only so I can stick it into potentially virus infected computers and run the files enclosed.
I have ...
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Take one disk of external mdadm data raid 1 to travel
I have a mdadm software raid 1 on external disks with media data.
For travel I want to take the data with me.
I imagine to set the raid and the underlying filesystem in readonly mode and take just ...
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Unable to set read-only property on temp folder
I'm trying to make the \documentsettings\user\temp folder as read only to prevent files from writing files into it ( I have reasons to do so). But I've tried all the basic methods of doing so, from ...
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How to make your ubuntu filesystem read-only
I wonder whether there is a way to make my ubuntu read-only when I mount it on another linux system. Let me clear what I want. I have a usb stick on where my ubuntu is installed. However, the problem ...
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How to remove ReadOnly from files in Windows 7?
I am using Windows 7 and want to remove readonly from files, I tried all possible method like unchecking the readonly option from properties... using attrib command in CMD and
Right-click on "My ...
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rc.conf error causing read-only boot, FreeBSD
I recently edited my /etc/rc.conf and believe there to be a syntax error.
When I try to boot I receive an error message in regards to the file and then it boots and mounts the file-system in read only ...
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In MacOS X is there a way to create a shortcut to a folder on a readonly drive?
I have a partitioned drive with a different OS on my Mac. I can access this drive in readonly mode, but not write mode.
There is a folder on this partition drive that I often open, and therefore I ...
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How to make text editors respect read-only file permissions as root?
I just discovered that nano, KWrite and Kate all silently overwrite read-only files when editing as root -- even if the file permissions are 400 (-r--------). It also doesn't matter if root is the ...
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TS-7800 Hangs on bootup
I have a TS-7800, and it typically boots from the SD card inserted in it. When I tried to boot it up today, it hung on the syslog line. I am now having "Read only file system" problems. What has gone ...
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Main HDD read only? [closed]
I have the feeling that my SATA connection in the BIOS is messed up.
Context:
Since I had the computer built 3y ago with Asus P5Qse motherboard SATA DDR2 its bios detected "No Hard Disk!" when ...
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Re-format thumb drive
I was trying to put the Windows 8 Consumer Preview onto a thumb drive, when I was asked if I was OK with wiping it (I said yes I as it was blank).
I had to sleep my computer during the wiping, and ...
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Can I encrypt data in a way that it can be read normally but can't be copied or edited?
I want to share my 500 GB hard drive with a friend but I want to encrypt it in a way that all data can be read normally but cannot be copied or edited in any way.
Is that possible?
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Excel protection options - when different areas need to be updated by different staff
When using password protection in Excel 7 - what options do you have that don't require you to re-enter the password again before saving/closing the file - ie to keep it protected if you happen to ...
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How to get a list of non read only files in Windows?
I need to find a way to get a list of all the Non Read Only files under a specific path on windows server 2003.
I tried the following command, but I also got all the directories which are non Read ...
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How can I refresh a document I have open in Excel in read-only mode?
I have an Excel document that is stored on a SharePoint Server, which I always have open on my computer in read-only mode because I need to refer to it.
Every so often, in order to get the latest ...
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Windows XP fails to uncheck the Read-only attribute from folder (and subfolders) [duplicate]
I am trying to uncheck the the Read-only attribute from a folder (and all subfolders). That folder is my own data folder, that I copied as is to a TrueCrypt drive on my laptop.
The TrueCrypt drive is ...
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Is it standard practice to make a user's profile Documents and Settings and Local Setting Read Only and Hidden?
Is it common practice to make a user's profile Documents and Settings and Local Setting "Read Only" and "Hidden", e.g from a Systems Admin perspective? In my experience, this is rare, however I work ...
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Checksum for Protecting Read-Only Documents
My father owns a small business and has to hand over several year's worth of financial documents to his insurance's auditor. He's asked me to go through and make sure everything is "read-only" so the ...
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Ubuntu + Unable to Edit .bashrc file because of ReadOnly
I am getting the following warning:
Unable to verify SSL certificate for api.heroku.com
To disable SSL verification, run with HEROKU_SSL_VERIFY=disable
By searching Google I was able to find a few ...
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Does burning an ISO file on a non-rewritable DVD make the DVD read-only?
If I burn an ISO file on a non-rewritable DVD, does the DVD become read-only?
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Why is my share partially read-only?
Host: Windows XP Pro SP3. Client Windows 7.
On the host I have a directory that's shared. While it's technically writable I never do so. Under it are some folders into which volumes have been ...
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Microsoft Word Read-Only Document - Avoid Unwanted Tab Space
I have a read-only Microsoft Word (docx) document that has (in addition to explanatory read-only text) a few editable forms. In one of these forms, there are two columns. Each column has a ...
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command line remove read only flag on all subfolder entries or overwrite read only files with robocopy
I need one of two things to work:
I use robocopy to copy all sub-files and sub-folders from one folder to another, and the destination contains older files + files not in the source, and I need the ...
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MS Office documents suddenly become read-only [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
While editing a document in Word 2007 the document suddenly becomes read only
This is really annoying. When I work on a Word or Powerpoint document in MS Office 2007, ...
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Create an unformattable USB drive [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Make a USB drive read only.
Is it possible to format a USB memory stick so that it cannot be formatted again?
What I actually need is to write software (using C# ...
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Mac made a flash drive “read only” in Windows?
I use a 128GB flash drive to move my work between several PCs (all win XP sp3) and a Mac with OSX 10.6. The drive is formatted as NTFS, the Mac uses the Paragon NTFS driver for read/write access.
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