Malke, thank you for your response.
From what I read on the web, yes it seems that the read only attribute
(which is not releated to the ntfs permissions) does not do what people
think it would It has some other function in the process. But I don't
understande why in that case, when you clear the attribute and then
click OK, you get a message asking if this should apply to only this
folder or also to all sub folders and files???
In anycase, here is my specific issue. I have a folder called ITUNES on
my external drive (G
I have taken ownership of the folder and all of
it's contents. I have given full contol to Everyone. No other
permissions are set. I open Itunes and set the g:\itunes folder as my
default music folder. Then I set Itunes to consolidate my library to
g:\itunes. Part way through the operations, the operation fails with
the message, write access denied.