after saving to cd many times. now says read only?

[Guest]

i have saved many times to my cd. i overwrite it almost daily (CD-RW) all of
a sudden it now say's the file is read only. although i can still save to my
hard drive?

 

[Gordon]

i have saved many times to my cd. i overwrite it almost daily (CD-RW) all of
a sudden it now say's the file is read only. although i can still save to my
hard drive?

Unless you have formatted your CDRW for packet writing, then yes, it
will be Read only. CDROM = CD Read Only Memory!

 

[Gord Dibben]

Just one of the dangers of saving directly to or opening directly from a disk.

Best practice is to save to HDD first then copy to CD. Same way coming back.

Can you copy it to HDD and is it still read-only?

Can you remove the read-only property through Windows Explorer?

You may have to copy the sheets to a new workbook and save that. To HDD, of
course.


Gord Dibben Excel MVP