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      30th Aug 2006
I am puzzled by somethign that has happened to me several times. I am the
admin user of my system and should have control over all premissions in any
profile, but I have come accross folders and files that I am unable to rename
or delete. When I look at the attributes I see the file/folder is read-only,
so I try to clear the tick box but I am unable to do it. Can anyone explain
why? Is there something I can do?
I would appreciate any comments that shed light into this.
 
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      1st Sep 2006
Not without more info, folder and file names perhaps?

"hitchman" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>I am puzzled by somethign that has happened to me several times. I am the
> admin user of my system and should have control over all premissions in
> any
> profile, but I have come accross folders and files that I am unable to
> rename
> or delete. When I look at the attributes I see the file/folder is
> read-only,
> so I try to clear the tick box but I am unable to do it. Can anyone
> explain
> why? Is there something I can do?
> I would appreciate any comments that shed light into this.



 
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      2nd Sep 2006
These are folders that I created. Why would the name be relevant? As the
aministrator I should have control over data I created.

"Dave B." wrote:

> Not without more info, folder and file names perhaps?
>
> "hitchman" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:146DF7CF-E561-45FD-8296-(E-Mail Removed)...
> >I am puzzled by somethign that has happened to me several times. I am the
> > admin user of my system and should have control over all premissions in
> > any
> > profile, but I have come accross folders and files that I am unable to
> > rename
> > or delete. When I look at the attributes I see the file/folder is
> > read-only,
> > so I try to clear the tick box but I am unable to do it. Can anyone
> > explain
> > why? Is there something I can do?
> > I would appreciate any comments that shed light into this.

>
>
>

 
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      2nd Sep 2006
Sorry, one pice of info that I forgot to add. These files or folders may have
been created in a differnet computer and copied over to the new computer. I
don't know if that is when they became read-only, but I can't see any other
event that would trigger that.

"Dave B." wrote:

> Not without more info, folder and file names perhaps?
>
> "hitchman" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:146DF7CF-E561-45FD-8296-(E-Mail Removed)...
> >I am puzzled by somethign that has happened to me several times. I am the
> > admin user of my system and should have control over all premissions in
> > any
> > profile, but I have come accross folders and files that I am unable to
> > rename
> > or delete. When I look at the attributes I see the file/folder is
> > read-only,
> > so I try to clear the tick box but I am unable to do it. Can anyone
> > explain
> > why? Is there something I can do?
> > I would appreciate any comments that shed light into this.

>
>
>

 
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