Re: Cant change Read only attribute for folder

I am not sure what you meant by

You should probably look at the folder's NTFS Security permissions &
inheritance for the cause of the problem. Do you and the System have
necessary permissions to write to the folder?

It is my personal laptop so I should have access to everything.

I did try to set the bit via the command prompt but when i look at it via
Explorer it still says read only

I did find a workaround and that was to close Visual Studio and reopen and
it worked. But I would really like to keep this from happening again.


"John John" <audetweld@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Unless the folder was customized the Read-only attribute means bug-all.
See here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/326549/

You should probably look at the folder's NTFS Security permissions &
inheritance for the cause of the problem. Do you and the System have
necessary permissions to write to the folder?

John

M K wrote:

I have an application I am writing and when I tried to run it I got the
following message:

Visual Studio could not copy a support file to this location
C:\xxxxxxxxxx. Please verify the path exists and is writable.

Sooo I opened Explorer and went to the folder and found the read-only bit
was set so I unchecked it and hit OK. I got the same message so I once
again checked that folder and the read-only bit got reset again.

I have tried to set it from the top folder and it went through the
motions again and it got set again back to read-only. I also included
sub-folders too.

HELP!!!!!!!! lol

Mark



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