Can't access music files

[Matt]

Many of my mp3 music files have been compressed to save
disk space. I do not know how this happened and when i
attempt to change the files to uncompressed an error
occurs that says access is denied. The files are all
still present on my computer, however no program will
play them. I cannot modify or alter the files in any
way. I'm not sure how to fix this, and any help would be
greatly appreciated. thanks

 

[Kelly]

Wild shot, Matt:

HOW TO: Take Ownership of a File or Folder in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q308421

HOW TO: Set, View, Change, or Remove File and Folder Permissions
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q308/4/18.asp

/top10faqs.htm

 

[James Harris]

-----Original Message-----
Many of my mp3 music files have been compressed to save
disk space. I do not know how this happened and when i
attempt to change the files to uncompressed an error
occurs that says access is denied. The files are all
still present on my computer, however no program will
play them. I cannot modify or alter the files in any
way. I'm not sure how to fix this, and any help would be
greatly appreciated. thanks

.

You can set the attributes of all of the mp3 files to
read/write. Open a DOS window and at the prompt, Attrib
+R +W *.mp3 should do it.