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Old September 13th, 2004, 06:39 PM
Dillie
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Default How do I remove "read only" from multiple documents at one time

For some reason, most of my documents have "read only" on them. I don't know
how this is occuring, nor how to remove it without accessing each document
one at a time.
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Old September 13th, 2004, 07:10 PM
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In article , Dillie wrote:
For some reason, most of my documents have "read only" on them. I don't know
how this is occuring, nor how to remove it without accessing each document
one at a time.


Did you copy them to your hard drive from a CD or are you reading them directly
from a CD? Files on CD are always read-only.

If they're on your hard drive, start Windows Explorer, browse to the folder
where the files are stored, select all the files then rightclick and choose
Properties. Remove the black or gray checkmark next to Read only and click OK

Done.

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Old September 13th, 2004, 08:47 PM
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Thanks, I was transfering updated documents via a CD-RW from my home to my
office computer. I was trying to cut from the CD-RW and paste to my hard
drive. It wouldn't allow me to do that, but I could copy the files. I
checked my hard drive and the files do not appear to be "read only" any
longer. However, I am unable to remove the files from the CD-RW. Any
suggestions.

"Dillie" wrote:

For some reason, most of my documents have "read only" on them. I don't know
how this is occuring, nor how to remove it without accessing each document
one at a time.

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Old September 14th, 2004, 12:26 AM
Steve Rindsberg
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In article , Dillie wrote:
Thanks, I was transfering updated documents via a CD-RW from my home to my
office computer. I was trying to cut from the CD-RW and paste to my hard
drive. It wouldn't allow me to do that, but I could copy the files. I
checked my hard drive and the files do not appear to be "read only" any
longer. However, I am unable to remove the files from the CD-RW. Any
suggestions.


Reformat the CD, perhaps? I don't really know. I never saw much use for R/Ws and
never trusted 'em anyhow. See if the CD writing software allows it.


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Old September 14th, 2004, 04:20 AM
jgall104297 \(remove the 7\) @aol.com
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You are ahead of me... How do you remove it on a single
powerpoint presentation?


-----Original Message-----
For some reason, most of my documents have "read only"

on them. I don't know
how this is occuring, nor how to remove it without

accessing each document
one at a time.
.

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Old September 14th, 2004, 03:51 PM
Steve Rindsberg
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In article , Jgall104297 (remove the 7)
@aol.com wrote:
You are ahead of me... How do you remove it on a single
powerpoint presentation?


See my answer above. Basically, use Windows Explorer to select the file,
rightclick, choose Properties, remove the check next to "Read only"

Or open it in PowerPoint, choose File, Save As and save it to a new name.

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