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Is there any way for me to find out which application keeps marking my files and folders Read-Only?

I'm a developer working on W10x64 with VS2015 and souce control via TFS. Every now and then (I havn't found a pattern...yet) my project folder and files gets marked as read-only, which causes issues with local debugging and compilation.

This is getting very frustration, and I'm just about to write a application that watches my filesystem to keeps file write enabled.

However, maybe there's a more "sane" way to find the culprit?

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  • Where is the folder located on your computer? Do you copy/paste files or folders into the directory from another source?
    – user725131
    May 22, 2017 at 7:49
  • Files located on e-drive - as in: non-system drive. Sometimes I copy files myself, sure. But sometimes entire folders are marked. I suspect the TFS Source Control from VS2015 marking files as readonly.
    – Michael H. Pedersen
    May 23, 2017 at 6:52

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I finally had enough and wrote a small app to monitor my file attributes.

Turns out every time I sync with TFS, files are marked as read-only. I cannot find a vanilla solution to prevent this, so I tweaked aforementioned app to reset attributes whenever changed.

Don't know if this will cause other issues. But for now my main one has been resolved.

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