Re: HELP! Read Only status on Writable CD

All files and folders on CDs are Read-only. Copy your file(s) to your hard
drive first, make your changes, then send them back to the CD.

Read-only means that you cannot make any changes to the files or if you do
make changes, the changes are not saved. You can look, but you cannot
touch. ;-)

It does not matter what program you used to burn the CD.

All files and folders on CDs are Read-only. Copy your file(s) to your hard
drive first, make your changes, then send them back to the CD.

If you have problems with the Read-only attribute on the file(s) that you
copy from the CD to the hard drive, see below.

<quote>
SYMPTOMS
When you try to save a file in that is from one of the programs that are
listed in the "Applies to" section to a CD-RW or a DVD/CD-RW drive, the file
is not saved. Additionally, you receive the following error message:

Incorrect function.

When you click OK in the error message, you receive the following error
message:

You do not have access to the folder 'drive:\'. See your administrator for
access to this folder.

....you must save the file to the hard disk drive, and then use the CD-ROM
recording program to burn the file to a CD-RW or a DVD/CD-RW drive.
<quote>
from...
You receive an "Incorrect function" error message when you try to save a
file from an Office program to a CD-RW or a DVD/CD-RW drive
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/905431

<quote>
Other programs such as Microsoft Word do allow you to save to a writable
CD-ROM drive. If you try to save to a non-writable CD-ROM drive from one of
these programs you will get an error such as:

Cannot save <filename>. The folder is marked 'Read Only'.

<quote>
from...
PIP: Cannot Save to Writable CD
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/184460

CD Read-only

Files saved to CD are automatically listed as Read-only. When they are
restored to a hard drive they may remain Read-only.

Locate the files through My Computer or Windows Explorer.

Highlight the file or group of files | Right click the file or group of
files | Properties | Uncheck the Read-only box found in Attributes | Click
Apply | Click OK

See also...
HOW TO: Remove the Read-Only Attribute While You Copy Files from a CD-ROM in
Windows 2000
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/323002

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

In news:Ue2dnaurc-A8pWbZnZ2dnUVZ_rydnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
Silvermoon <cf@xxxxxx> hunted and pecked:
Sorry if this question has been answered recently. I read the post "CD
Writing Wizard" and went to the links Wes provided. Unfortunately, it
didn't help. Thanks anyway Wes.

A little background info:
I have a Sony CD-RW disk drive and when I copy files (the CD Writing
Wizard comes up) to the disk they only come up as 'Read Only" in Word.
Another file is asking me for file conversion when trying to open it.
These files are just simple 25 KB letters done in Word.

I know I can be ignorant about these things, but I thought I would be able
to use my rewritable cd drive like a floppy disk drive... to be able to
save a file, remove the disk, go back into the file on the disk, make
changes and save again, as we all have been doing with floppys for years.

Mind you, the drive came with Nero and InCD... that's an idiot proof
packet writing software (I do need idiot proof!). Nero was not letting
me click on InCD and after reading the FAQ I realized the InCD cannot
work with "CD Writing Wizard" and Roxio, which is the software for the CD
Writing Wizard!

So I uninstalled Nero and I am still having the same problem. The Sony
drive is compatible.

I appreciate any help I can get!

Thanks,
Silvermoon

act found out that

I must be missing something here because I thought



and as I am having this
problem with Word I thought I would address it here. If this question is
not appropriate here, I apologize, and would anyone know where I can go to
ask this question.

I have a new, blank, rewritable CD-RW disc and I managed to save a folder
on it with a file. Now if I open the file and make changes and try to
save it to the disk I get the error, "Word cannot save or create this
file. Make sure the disk that you want to save the file on is not full,
write protected, or damaged". The file is only 26KB on a brand new,
empty disk.

I know I can be ignorant about these things, but I thought I would be able
to use my rewritable cd drive like a floppy disk drive... to be able to
save a file, remove the disk, go back into the file on the disk, make
changes and save again, as we all have been doing with floppys for years.

Am I missing something here?

Thanks. I appreciate any help I can get.
Silvermoon

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