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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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Mount WebDAV network drive read-only / make it write-protected
I have mapped a WebDAV server to a drive in windows, which make accessing file on the WebDAV server really convenient, but I need to avoid making changes.
So my question is if there is a possibility ...
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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)
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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How can I make the read only file system writable on BusyBox?
I want to change some files on my router. Firstly I can change everything in /var, but I want to change /etc/fstab. When I try to change it, I get an error message that says the file system is read ...
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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
To Remove Issue of
WARNING: Unable to verify SSL certificate for api.heroku.com
To disable SSL verification, run with HEROKU_SSL_VERIFY=disable
By Googling I got few solution. One of them is added ...
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Edit a file on a ext2 USB key that is read only
I have a USB key with files onto it that are the filesystem of a Debian server.
I need to edit /etc/hosts to fix a mistake I made (the server has no screen nor keyboard, so because of that mistake, ...
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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 [closed]
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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 [closed]
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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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Cygwin - how to edit a read only file?
I'm trying to edit /etc/hosts using Vi in Cygwin but it's read only. Is there a command similar to sudo? How do I edit a read-only file?
Thanks
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how to format readonly iso9660 USB drive
I have usb drive its file system readonly ISO9660. How to format it ?
It always says "Readonly FS"
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How to copy a Read-Only file and make the copy writable with a single cp command?
How to copy a Read-Only file in Linux and make the copy writable with a single cp command in Linux (Ubuntu 10.04)?
The --no-preserve and --preserve seemed to be good candidates, except that they ...
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How can I mount a local directory as read-only in Windows 7?
I have music software that I do not trust to leave my music files alone. I want to provide it with a read-only directory to read from. The directory exists on a secondary drive that's attached via ...
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Forms are Read-Only in Open Office Base
I'm in Open Office Base and I want to add records to an existing table/form, but it says read-only. I've already checked the Properties
How can I add new records?
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How to edit a read-only document in LibreOffice?
I need to fill a form (which I received in .doc format and saved as .odt). The file is read-only except for the fields where I can enter the information. Unfortunately, with the fields filled it ...
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Windows Embedded CE 6.0 Booting from read-only medium
I couldn't find anything on the net about this.
Do you guys know of any books, tutorials or MSDN article that explains how to do this?
Does CE support something like a RAM-Disk to save run-time ...
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How to make read-only a partition on external storage? And revert to normal?
Sometimes, I have to give my external storage someone else. But, I am worry about files and folders which accidentally deleted, moved, changed etc... Therefore, it is enough that data on the disk can ...
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OS X: mounting my camera as R/W
When I jack my camera into my Mac mini it gets auto-mounted as read only:
/dev/disk1s1 on /Volumes/NO NAME (msdos, local, nodev, nosuid, read-only, noowners)
I would like to mount it as "write" to ...
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How to use the offline version of synchronized files when they are available online with read-only?
Due to maintenance a usually read-writeable network share is currently available as read-only. I did mark it to be made available offline and the synchronization was successful. Now I would like to ...
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While editing a document in Word 2007 the document suddenly becomes read only
For work, I received a new computer with Word 2007.
As I'm working on a document, everything will be going normally (write a bit, save, write a bit, save, etc) but at some apparently random point, ...
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Can't copy files to NAS anymore
I'm usign a NAS from WD to store some files (http://www.wdc.com/de/products/Products.asp?DriveID=587).
I'd worked without problems for hours, but suddently some hours ago I can't copy any files to ...
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How to mount an NTFS partition read-only in Windows?
I feel like this is a really simple and fundamental function that Windows should have, but so far Google has been telling me it isn't possible. How can I mount an NTFS partition read-only in Windows?
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Advantages and disadvantages of read-only filesystem
I work for a company that makes portable devices running Linux and I was recently asked to make the underlying file system read-only for "security" purposes.
Since the distribution is based on ...
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Erase and other options disabled in Disk Utility
When accessing an SD-HC card on Snow Leapard many of the options to erase, partition and repair are disabled. The disk is appearing as a read-only file system formatted in FAT-32 so I can't delete the ...
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Make the file author property readonly - MS-Word 2007
I just want to know is there a way of locking a MS-Word files author, while keeping the document editable. in MS-Word 2007
currently
you crate a document
save the document
right click on the ...
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how to open files as read only in openoffice
I'm a student and I often find myself opening lecture notes (in PPT format) to study. I don't need to edit them (and I don't want to accidentally edit them). After opening the file I usually click on ...
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How to prevent myself from accidentaly remove/change files?
I'm using Ubuntu 10.04. I have a large directory with (many sub-directories) and data files I use quite often in my scripts. I would like to make sure I never accidentally remove/overwrite/change any ...
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Why my centos ext3 filesystem go read-only?
My centos ext3 filesystem go read-only random(only the /var partition). When i reboot it, i will changed back to rw.
os: centos 5.4
partition: /var, size:80G
the /var is for web logs and mysql data ...
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Files created when using 'sudo' command are read-only to my user
I am a new Mac user who is starting to learn Ruby on Rails. I have found that I need to use the sudo statement when running commands like
$ sudo rails generate controller home index
But when I ...
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Make a USB drive read only
I have a 1.5TB USB drive with many important files that I want to give to a friend (they have Windows7) for reading only purposes. thumbscrew appears to flip a registry switch but it seems to be on ...
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Will mounting my disk as “ro” make it completely read-only?
I've got a dualboot installation with Ubuntu 10.04 and Windows 7 Ultimate. I've got 2 drives with the following partitions set up:
500 GB drive
2 partitions:
C:/ 320GB NTFS (Has Win 7 on it)
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Change owner of folder on read-only drive in Ubuntu
My IMac died (power supply issue, out of warranty) and I removed the HDD so I could recover some files. I'm trying to copy files from my Desktop folder on the Mac HDD using Ubuntu 10.04 (running from ...
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Lock file permanently as read-only in Writer
Is it possible to lock a file in OpenOffice.org Writer permanently? Giving it a "read only" status forever?
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Windows 7 Permissions
I have an odd problem with a windows 7 laptop. It's a single user installation currently. This is a fresh install on an Asus laptop.
I have a svn repo checked out on my second partition. I have ...
