A Permissions Problem?

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Running XP Pro, SP1 and all available patches installed, on a machine at
home.

I have set up the two primary accounts, mine and administrator, for full
control under the Administrators group, which of course also itself has full
control permissions. The "problem" I have is that running under my account,
or the administrator account, from safe mode (or normal boot), all of the
folders and files my partitions contain are marked with the "read-only"
attribute, which cannot be changed by me or the administrator account, even
from safe mode. But...I nevertheless have full control from these accounts
and may delete, change, or install normally without any problem.

I'm not sure why although the files and directories have the "read only"
attribute set, as seen from the GUI in a context menu properties check, I
nonetheless do indeed have full control from these accounts, and although
there isn't a practical problem for me here I'm wondering if there's
something I've overlooked relating to account permissions that would
synchronize the GUI attribute display with what the actual attributes of the
files apparently are.

Any insight would be appreciated!
 
Hi

Running XP Pro, SP1 and all available patches installed, on a machine at
home.

I have set up the two primary accounts, mine and administrator, for full
control under the Administrators group, which of course also itself has full
control permissions. The "problem" I have is that running under my account,
or the administrator account, from safe mode (or normal boot), all of the
folders and files my partitions contain are marked with the "read-only"
attribute, which cannot be changed by me or the administrator account, even
from safe mode. But...I nevertheless have full control from these accounts
and may delete, change, or install normally without any problem.

I'm not sure why although the files and directories have the "read only"
attribute set, as seen from the GUI in a context menu properties check, I
nonetheless do indeed have full control from these accounts, and although
there isn't a practical problem for me here I'm wondering if there's
something I've overlooked relating to account permissions that would
synchronize the GUI attribute display with what the actual attributes of the
files apparently are.

Any insight would be appreciated!
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This behavior is by design, windows explorer will show all folders as
read only, even though they are not.

Try opening a command prompt, going to the parent directory and using
the attrib command to see whether or not they are read-only.

Nothing to worry about.

Good luck
 
This behavior is by design, windows explorer will show all folders as
read only, even though they are not.

Try opening a command prompt, going to the parent directory and using
the attrib command to see whether or not they are read-only.

Nothing to worry about.

Good luck
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Thank you much....I had hoped as much, as I'd had no practical problems at
all, and only just noticed this recently. Thanks again.
 
Hi Walt,

Thank you much....I had hoped as much, as I'd had no practical problems at
all, and only just noticed this recently. Thanks again.
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You're welcome :-)
Glad to help.
 
Hi Roger,

reading this posting I found out maybe you can help me.

I have the same problem with the read-only attribute on my folders. I cannot change any file in my shared document folder nor in any subfolder.

Unchecking the read only attribute in properties doesn't help. Next time I open properties the tread-only box is checked again.

Weh I check the answer: apply to alle subfoders, it comes with the message: NO acces or unable to chenge due to read only. Well, that was just the problem that I tried to solve.

Also tried in cmd. Didn't help. Then it still give: Not resetting, or unable to acces...

Whta else can I trY?

Martin
(Netherlands)
 
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