Preventing File Delete

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Hello all,

I'm using WinXP with FAT32 partition and I want to know if it's possible to
prevent others from deleting files in my folder on a stand alone computer.
The computer is a workstation not part of a network so there's no way to
assign folder permissions.

Is it possible to keep other people from deleting files in my folder that's
assigned to me?

Thanks in advance :-)

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Set the Read-only attribute on any files that you do not want accidentally
deleted. This will not prevent anyone else from changing the attribute, but
it may slow them down.

A file that is marked Read-only can be read, but it cannot be changed or
deleted.

Right click a file or a group of selected files and click Properties.
On the General tab, check the box: Read-only, click Apply then click OK.

Read-only
[[Specifies whether this file is read-only, which means that it cannot be
changed or accidentally deleted.

For multiple files, if you select this check box all of the files will be
read-only. If you clear the check box, none of the selected files will be
read-only]]

There is NO way to assign permissions because of FAT32.

If you had the hard drive formatted NTFS you could assign a password to your
folder and keep everyone else out of it.

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

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