Read only files

[Guest]

Why whenever I save a word doc on a CD it never ever can be edited when you
open it from the CD? When I created the doc I didn't specify it to be a read
only file. I want others to be able to edit it off the CD.

 

[Graham Mayor]

This is not possible. Copy to the hard drive and remove the read-only flag
to edit the document.


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[Jezebel]

Normal CDs are always read-only: any file, once written, is immutable.

Some Windows set-ups make it possible to edit a document directly on a
read-write CD; but this corrupts the document and often the entire CD as
well.

 

[Guest]

In my orginial notes I forgot I am using a CD-RW to copy my word docs. I do
have the hard drive copy I did look at the attributes it is a read-only
flagged docment. Where do you remove the read only flag from a file copies
off a CD-RW?

 

[Graham Mayor]

In Windows Explorer, right click the file (on the hard drive) and select
properties. Uncheck the read only flag.

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