lemaire Posted October 16, 2004 Report Share Posted October 16, 2004 Good evening from BelgiumThanks for taking time reading this post and eventually answering.Going abroad next Saturday for 6 weeks, I try to be able to work on my Laptop with the Data taken from my normal computer.- I have transfering from my computer the Data to a CD- I copied the Data from CD to the hard drive on my LaptopI cannot work on these data on the laptop (as well as on my normal Computer from the CD) as receiving this warning message "Attributes:read only"What can I do for changing this "read only"For information, Window 98 is on both computers (genual ones with certificates)Being for more than 4 hours on the Net trying to find an answer and a solution, without success, maybe somebody here can tell me how to solve it.Thanks in advanceBest regardsAnnie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark2 Posted October 16, 2004 Report Share Posted October 16, 2004 Not sure if this will work, I'm on XP, on the files on your laptop, r/click > propertiesis there a box to uncheck read only ?once burned to Cd they will again become read only even after copying back to your HD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agent Smith Posted October 17, 2004 Report Share Posted October 17, 2004 Mark2, yes there was the read only check box in Win 98 which will need to be unticked on all the files copied from the CD.Perhaps the easiest method, if there are lots of files, would be to use the attrib dos command. Put all the files in a directory (folder) on your pc. For example, make a directory in the root of c and call it Files. Open a dos box, and at the command prompt typeattrib c:\Files\*.* -r /sThis will remove the read only set from all the files in the directory and subdirectories.Mr. M. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lemaire Posted October 17, 2004 Author Report Share Posted October 17, 2004 Mark2 and Mister M,Thanks for your answers.Fortunatelly, it was not so many files, and I untick them one by one and everything is OK now.May I ask what a Dos box is and how to open it?Thanks again for your helpBest regardsAnnie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agent Smith Posted October 17, 2004 Report Share Posted October 17, 2004 For a far better description of DOS than I can give you, have a look herehttp://www.computerhope.com/msdos.htmTo open a dos box in windows 98, either go to start, then run, and type the word command (cmd on win 2000 and XP) into the popup box, or there should be (if my memory is correct) a shortcut to a command prompt already in the program files menu. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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