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Devices => PC's and Other Hardware => Topic started by: robgil on January 26, 2014, 12:01:40 pm

Title: Vista keeps reverting back to read only.
Post by: robgil on January 26, 2014, 12:01:40 pm
When I configure my music folder so it can be changed by unchecking the read only box in properties Vista keeps checking it again to read only.
Any ideas?
Title: Re: Vista keeps reverting back to read only.
Post by: MrC on January 26, 2014, 12:46:26 pm
Quote from: robgil on January 26, 2014, 12:01:40 pm
... the read only box in properties...

Which read-only box?  If it is the one I think you're checking, that's not the one you want.  Go under the Security tab in Properties, and be sure you have the permissions you need.
Title: Re: Vista keeps reverting back to read only.
Post by: robgil on January 26, 2014, 02:26:21 pm
Ah I see, I have set the permissions for ''everyone'' to ''full control'' in the security tab.
Thanks MrC.
Title: Re: Vista keeps reverting back to read only.
Post by: InflatableMouse on January 27, 2014, 01:43:25 am
Folders are always readonly. Don't ask me why though its just the way it is.
Title: Re: Vista keeps reverting back to read only.
Post by: glynor on January 27, 2014, 09:45:21 am
Quote from: InflatableMouse on January 27, 2014, 01:43:25 am
Folders are always readonly. Don't ask me why though its just the way it is.

This explains it:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/326549

Shorter: Directories on NTFS don't support the Read-Only flag.  The same "filesystem bit" that is used by Windows to set a file as read only, is used by Windows to set a directory to System/Non-System status.  However, you aren't able to change the System/Non-System flag for directories via any of the built-in GUI tools, so that's just an esoteric technical note.  Folders can't be read only, and if they do somehow get set that way, Windows ignores it.  Folder access is controlled via permissions.

The gray-filled Read-Only checkbox in the File Properties dialog, for subdirectories, doesn't mean "some items under this one are set Read-Only" as it would normally.  It means "we don't know, maybe", it is controlled by permissions.