If you have many files in a folder, with some (or all) of them set to read only, just highlight them all in windows explorer, click on properties, and uncheck the box labeled read only, then click apply. This makes them *all* writable. Alfred Eller wrote: > > Did you backup or copy your files to a CD ? If so, the Read Only attribute > is set, and is still set when you copy them back to the hard drive. You need > to reset the read only archive bit. (Or remove the write protection) > > There is a little (VERY LITTLE) in the Windows Explorer help about this, > should find it by searching for "Read-Only" > > You can do that one file at a time with Windows Explorer, just right click > on a file and select properties, then click on the line that says "Read > Only" to remove the checkmark but with a hundred or so files in a folder > this gets tiresome. > > You can set or reset all the attributes in all the files in a folder by > using the DOS attrib command from the MS-DOS prompt. (You can maybe look it > up, I would have to and then try to explain what I found) > > Good Luck, > Alfred -- Charlie Hoffpauir http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~charlieh/