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10 questions linked to/from Folder keeps changing back to read-only. What permissions setup causes this in Windows?
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Can't remove read only attribute from folder windows 8.1 [duplicate]
I am using windows 8.1 64 bit
I am unable to remove the read only attribute on folders on my computer. I have tried multiple folders on my desktop, and in my documents folder, if I uncheck the read ...
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Having trouble with Windows XP Read Only Settings on a folder
I am having trouble with a folder that needs to be read-write for iTunes to open. For a while it was read-write, but it seemingly inexplicably changed to read-only now. When I try to change it back ...
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How to turn off folder write protection? It turns on automatically after disabling [duplicate]
I have a huge problem! Last week, i performed the newest Windows 10 update. Since then, on each folder im creating or each folder already created, the checkbox on the folder properties "Write ...
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Folder (contents) Read Only [duplicate]
Can we revisit the folder (contents) Read Only problem? On my Win 7 PC, after recovering from a virus, which seems to be gone, all of my folders are gray checked Read Only. Removing the check mark, ...
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Read Only flag. A property of the folder, too? (not just file objects?)
I select the following option to set the "Read Only" flag at the folder level and to cascade this flag setting to all of the descendant objects...
When I check the files after initiating this command,...
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Two folders with identical names causing many problems
In my 'Documents' folder (Win7) I have two folders with names that appear in Explorer to be identical, though their contents are different. I can rename them both to something else (eg: 'Test') and ...
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Read-only permission on USB
I have an Encrypted USB pin drive. I need to change permissions in the folder and file in such a way that they are no read-only. I use Windows 7 and when I click Properties, for that drive I see a ...
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Intel SSD setting all files to read only
I've been using my Intel 525 SSD for a few months as my primary hard drive and have not had any problems. One day none of my programs on my Windows 7 I installed would run. When I ran them a blank ...
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Permissions - could not execute temp folder - dropbox and java applications
So I was having an issue with multiple application on my windows 8 machine. Dropbox would not start, or run on my admin user. I also run a Java application called "Five9" and it was having issues ...
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Unsetting read only
I have shared folders of Excel files which I can read/write but no one else can write, only read. I have attempted to unset read only to no avail, I have also tried the fix referred to elsewhere on ...