Re: read only attr - easy right?

Just a thought but have you looked at the resulting permissions on the Security tab and compared that to the "non-CD" folders on the drive?

Manny Borges wrote:

While I thank evreyone else who has replied, you, Bob, actually read and understood my post.That's no small feat since I tend meander in my thoughts. So major kudos to you. 

I played with attrib and got nowhere.(been using it since good old dos days)

I agree that I must be chasing ghosts. Our infosec team is more than likely the team responsible for this strange behavior. Our machines are locked down very tight. We run a lot of software and utilities that we have created, so more than likely it is one of the active agents on the machine. Playing with active tasks yielded no fruit.

Its a bummer that a safe mode boot couldn't be acomplished to test the theory.

Like I said , its not my battle, I just was interested in the issue. So thank you for a thoughtful and on target reply.

"Bob I" wrote:


The "read-only" attribute shown in the properties dialog for the folder is not "honored" by Windows Explorer and if "cleared" will revert to the "grey-checked" mode. You are chasing ghosts. There is some other issue involved with the "in-use" problem. Anti-virus software perhaps? You could also go to the command line and run Attrib against the folder in question to check the real status of attributes.

Manny Borges wrote:

Okay- Read only attribute.

OS winXP - (will be posted there as well, I just you all would find this interesting)
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Seems like a simple thing right?

I have a cd as the source and Field service engineers need to copy source files off of this CD to make a serial connection to some industrial hardware.

Copy the files to the drive they show up as read only.(root, temp, any folder, I have tried em all.)

I go to the topmost or an other FOLDER in the file collection and the read only box is filled in completely.

All the files are now fine.

I try renaming the folders and get an in use error message. 

I try multiple times to remove said  filled in box but it persists.

Nothing odd in the event logs.

I am thinking that it is one of the many security programs we run, but when I try getting all the related services stopped it still doesn't work.

I only had one FSE notebook to play with and that one wouldn't go to safe mode, safe command or recovery console, so I hit a dead end.

I feel bad for them, and want to help, but ultimately at the end of the day its not my issue to resolve. Since the app is old and can run on antique hardware, and we are hemmoraging junk laptops here I reccommended using a seperate laptop running 2000 or NT (known to work fine). But its such a hamfisted solution.

I was wondering if anyone had had a similar experience or has any insight into this odd issue. 



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