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You Cannot View or Change the Read-Only or System Attribute of Folders
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This article was previously published under Q326549
For a Microsoft Windows 2000, Windows NT 4.0, Windows Millennium Edition,
Windows 98, and Windows 95 version of this article, see 256614.
SYMPTOMS
You may experience any of the following symptoms:
a.. You cannot view or change the Read-only or System attributes of a
folder by using the Properties dialog box for the folder. For example, you
may experience the following symptoms:
a.. When you view the General tab of a folder's Properties dialog box,
the Read-only check box is not available, and there is no check box to
change the System attribute.
b.. You click to clear or click to select the Read-only check box on the
General tab of a folder's Properties dialog box. When you click OK or Apply,
you receive the following message:
Confirm Attribute Changes
You have chosen to make the following attribute changes:
unset read-only
Do you want to apply this change to this folder only, or do you want to
apply it to all subfolders and files as well?
If you click Apply changes to this folder only, the Read-only attribute
is changed for all the files in the folder, but the Read-only attribute is
not changed for the folder, its subfolders, or any files in its subfolders.
If you click Apply changes to this folder, subfolders, and files, the
Read-only attribute is changed for all files in the folder and all files in
the subfolders, but the Read-only attribute is not changed for the folder or
its subfolders.
b.. Some programs may display error messages when you try to save files to
a folder with the Read-only or System attribute. As a result, these programs
may not be able to save files to the folder.
CAUSE
Unlike the Read-only attribute for a file, the Read-only attribute for a
folder is typically ignored by Windows, Windows components and accessories,
and other programs. For example, you can delete, rename, and change a folder
with the Read-only attribute by using Windows Explorer. The Read-only and
System attributes is only used by Windows Explorer to determine whether the
folder is a special folder, such as a system folder that has its view
customized by Windows (for example, My Documents, Favorites, Fonts,
Downloaded Program Files), or a folder that you customized by using the
Customize tab of the folder's Properties dialog box. As a result, Windows
Explorer does not allow you to view or change the Read-only or System
attributes of folders.
Note In some previous versions of Windows, you can change the Read-only
attribute for folders by using the Properties dialog box for the folder, but
no versions of Windows permit you to change the System attribute by using
Windows Explorer.
WORKAROUND
To work around this issue, use the Attrib command at a command prompt
(Cmd.exe) to view or remove the Read-only or System attributes of folders.
Type attrib /? at the command prompt to view the syntax for the Attrib
command.
Warning If you remove the Read-only or System attribute from a folder, it
may appear as a ordinary folder and some customizations may be lost. For
example, Windows customizes the Fonts folder and provides a special folder
view that permits you to hide variations, such as bold and italic. It also
permits you to change the folder's view settings in ways that are specific
to fonts. If you remove the Read-only and System attributes of the Fonts
folder, these customized view settings are not available. For folders that
you have customized by using the Customize tab of the folder's Properties
dialog box, the folder icon and other other customizations may be lost when
you remove the Read-only attribute.
If a program cannot save files to a folder with the Read-only attribute,
such as My Documents, change the Read-only attribute to System by using the
Attrib command at a command prompt.
For example, to change the Read-only attribute to System for the C:\Test
folder, use the following command:
attrib -r +s c:\test
Note that some programs may not operate correctly with folders that have the
System attribute set. To remove both the Read-only and System attributes
from the C:\Test folder, use the following command:
attrib -r -s c:\test
STATUS
This behavior is by design.
MORE INFORMATION
Windows stores file and folder attributes in the file system with the file
and folder name, extension, date and time stamps, and other information. The
Read-only check box for folders is not available because it does not apply
to the folder. You can use this check box to set the Read-only attribute for
files in the folder. However, you cannot use Windows Explorer to determine
if a folder has the Read-only and System attributes set. To determine the
attributes that are set on a folder, or to change these attributes, you must
use the Attrib command from a command prompt.
Rene Gnam said:
Hello again...
As my previous message said:
1. The article is blank. I tried again. All that comes up
is the title heading. No contents.
2. usually *.log, *.dat, *.tmp, *.mbx, *.pce, *.lst, *.lok
3. Because *.mbx refers to mailboxes. There are a total of
151 files in the Eudora folder and most of them fall into
the I-should-back-these-up category after they have been
accessed on the road. If you don't back them up to the
desktop on your return, then Eudora has to re-send all the
1000s of emails to the desktop because all the histories
of what's in what folder are gone without backup.
4. "I have tried using Windows Explorer, Laplink Gold, and
Xcopy. All stumble."
5. There's nothing wrong with the networking because all
the other files in Eudora copy successfully and all the
other files in other directories copy successfully.
6. Eudora tech support says it's because the "read only"
settings are wrong. THAT'S WHY I am concerned with
eliminating that check mark.
Do you know a way to eliminate that check mark so it STAYS
unchecked even after reboot?
Thank you. I appreciate you're sticking with this.
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