folder on desk top has read only attribute every time

[marsha]

I need to convert some info from one data base to another.
I just discovered when I put the data in a folder on the desktop
(of Windows Server 2003) that if I check attributes of folder,
it is read only although there is not a read only file in it.

If I try
changing it so that it isn't read only, it only lasts a few seconds.
It appears to change but if I go right back and check, it says
read only (not real dark - as if not sure). But once again, all of
the files within the folder can be written to, edited etc.

Anyone know why???

Thanks much

 

[Dave Patrick]

The read-only attribute for a folder is typically ignored by Windows. Every
single folder on my systems have the read-only attribute set.


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:
|I need to convert some info from one data base to another.
| I just discovered when I put the data in a folder on the desktop
| (of Windows Server 2003) that if I check attributes of folder,
| it is read only although there is not a read only file in it.
|
| If I try
| changing it so that it isn't read only, it only lasts a few seconds.
| It appears to change but if I go right back and check, it says
| read only (not real dark - as if not sure). But once again, all of
| the files within the folder can be written to, edited etc.
|
| Anyone know why???
|
| Thanks much
|
|

 

[Hank Arnold]

Never noticed that before....