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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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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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Having trouble with Windows XP Read Only Settings on a file
I am having trouble with a folder that needs to be read write for iTunes to open and it was for a while but it seemingly inexplicably changed to read-only now and when I try to change it back from ...
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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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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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How can I create a user with read-only access to all files? (ie root without writing permissions)
For backing up my server, I would like to remotely access it via SSH. To minimize all risks, it want to user a user who only has read access, but to all files, just like root. However, he shouldn't ...
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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 a partition on external storage read-only? 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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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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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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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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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?
