Read Only Frustration

[tricktx]

Hey guys. I recently copied all my Hard Disk to another because the old drive was faulty. Since booting up again nearly all the files on the hard disk are Read only. I can go to properties and tick it off, but is there any way of say making an entire folder revert to Read/Write mode, cos i font have the time to modify every file

[fancyf]

You could use the attrib command

Here's the syntax

ATTRIB [+R | -R] [+A | -A] [+S | -S] [+H | -H] filespec [/S]

+ Sets an attribute.
- Clears an attribute.
R Read-only file attribute.
A Archive file attribute.
S System file attribute.
H Hidden file attribute.
/S Processes files in all directories in the specified path.

Open a DOS windows or reboot to DOS mode and type :

attrib -R C:\mydocu~1\*.* /S

Typing this would take off the Read Only attribute to all files under My Documents and sub folders (the /S switch).

Note that only 8 charaters are used under DOS where for example
My New Stuff would become : mynews~1

Be careful to change only files you know that don't need this attribute as Windows system's files should remain with it.

F@ncy

[Jimstep]

I could have used that a few weeks ago...I've used it before, but had forgotten...

[BigBlue66]

I have done about the same thing in Windows. Just right-click on a sub-folder, choose properties, change it to whatever you want, choose Apply or Ok, then a dialog box pops up asking if you want to change the properties for all the files and sub-folders within the sub-folder you're in. See?

[tricktx]

hey guys.
Thanks FancyF but when i did it i got Shared Violation in "Folder chosen" Abort Retry Fail.

+Big Blue i have win98se and that option doesnt appear

Thanks for the replys

[fancyf]

I just tried :
C:\F@ncy's\hockey>attrib -R C:\F@ncy's\hockey\*.*

in a DOS window and it worked.



Was this on a personal folder?
Maybe you could try on a single folder without the /S switch like I did and see if it gives you the same message (?)


F@ncy

[fancyf]

Hi again

If you haven't been able to modify your files/folders attributes yet then I just found what you are looking for...
(well, not really me but Fred Langa newsletter did)

Here's a small freeware utility that will do the trick easily

Attribute Changer 4.10 for 9x/NT/2000/XP
http://webplaza.pt.lu/rpetges/

Have fun



F@ncy