everybody was dancing to help and now you tell us they were networked folders
True. It could also be the network share permissions, which are separate from the filesystem permissions.
To read, write, and modify a file on a network share, the current user must:
* Have permissions to read and write the filesystem on the network device (typically you do this in a non-Active Directory domain by creating a user with the same username and password on the server and the client). This includes permissions on all of the parent directories of the files in question as well (if the user doesn't have access to any folder in the "chain" they won't be able to modify files below it in the chain of directories).
* The share itself has separate permissions, and the user must also have read/write/modify access on the share.
Fixing the former is covered above. I can't describe how to fix the latter unless I know how the files are shared on the network (on another PC, on a NAS of some kind, etc). But, in any case,
both apply.