File Attributes Changed To Read-only

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One of our admins recently used xcopy to copy a bunch of directories and
files from a Windows 2000 to a Windows 2003 server. Apparently most, if not
all of the files had the read-only attribute set on the destination (Win2003)
machine. Is there a quick way to undo this? Is it a known issue? What
caused it? Thanks in advance.
 
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Pegasus \(MVP\)

SMFaison said:
One of our admins recently used xcopy to copy a bunch of directories and
files from a Windows 2000 to a Windows 2003 server. Apparently most, if not
all of the files had the read-only attribute set on the destination (Win2003)
machine. Is there a quick way to undo this? Is it a known issue? What
caused it? Thanks in advance.
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Try this:

attrib /s -r "x:\*.*"
 

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