read only

Hi, Trying to share a folder with a second user on my Win11 computer, giving them read only access. The folder is located in "Public Documents". Playing around with the Permissions I can set Read Allow, Write Deny, but this still allows the user to delete stuff. If I set Modify Deny to...

Hello, thank you for your help. I have a PC, and a NAS. The NAS has a file, when I try to use that file in a program, it says "The media is write protected." I am an admin Win user, and when right click > properties > security, it says I have write permission. When I copy file from NAS to PC...

Sadly, no solution has been presented so I'm reposting my request for help. After an automatic update ALL of my directories are now Read Only. Because I work from home and this is a new PC I'm unable to install some of my programs due to this.... pain (to say the least). I have been online for...

I'm preparing to reformat my PC with Win10. Currently, all the directories are Read Only due to Windows updating my PC over the past week. Rather than continuing to attempt to change the settings for each one of these directories (which they all just switch back) I have decided to just...

Ok, I'm not enjoying Win10 at all at this point. Every day something new happens that causes me issues. Today, ALL of my directories are suddenly Read Only and I'm not able to update certain Word docs. I've gone online to see how to resolve the Read Only issue but it seems that everybody...

File upload application causes browser to freeze. Can't insert or attach files to emails and can't upload files from email or internet. This is happening in both Edge and Firefox with both AOL and Yahoo mails. I've tried disabling read only and clearing cookies and cache to no avail. This...

I work at a computer repair shop and I finally came across something I cannot get around. A customer brought in a Microsoft Surface Book that has BitLocker protection on it. Windows is corrupt and I am using a windows 10 disk to repair it. I have his BitLocker recovery key so I can unlock the...

Something is suddenly changing my files to Read Only. It seems to be affecting Office 2016 files. What's causing this and how do I stop it?

Dear all, I am trying to find a way how to block USB, but only read from USB. To be more specific, I want to allow copy from computer to USB, but deny copy from USB to computer. Is there any way how to do it with Microsoft tools or free programs? Thank you in advance LostInHistory

Sorry for the long post, I've tried everything for this issue. I tried asking on other forums and nobody could really help me cause it's an 8.1 thing. It's taken me a long time to figure all this out so I'm slightly discouraged.... Ever since I upgraded from Windows 7 to 8.1, I've had a problem...

hello. I have windows 7 & Office 2013 - I am not particularly fond of the new live media gallery. In my position, I receive a great deal of photos from my colleagues to post on social media. I have Photoshop, but I often don't need that powerhouse to do some quick corrections like crop and color...

Hi guys I just reinstalled my Win 7, 2 days ago, only to find that now all my other partitions are Read Only. NP I thought, just untick the box and reset them, but some partitions are proving rather stubborn to my efforts. I've used Taken Ownership to undertake the process, and then unticked...

Hello, Happy New Year! I am trying to run Malawarebytes and it gives me the message: error code 383, text file read only. Could you please help me with this? Best, Boris

Hi Guys, I have a file that I can not delete. It is an .avi file that will not run in Media Player Classic or VLC so I figure that it is no good BUT I can't delete it. I went into dos and deleted it there or so I thought but all it did was get dos flashing a prompt dash. I had deleted a couple...

Odd...having searched Google, I found hits for this forum, but I can't find anything searching within it! Anyway, all of a sudden all my folders are read-only. all files are shared within the folder, security settings are all fine, but no matter what I do it stays read-only. Another profile I...

Just got a new pc that has W8, came from XP. I have a popcorn hour NMT with an internal HDD that I have networked and was working fine with my old pc. The drive is mapped and is visible in windows explorer and I can even upload files to it with Filezilla. When I try to modify a file through w...

In my original post for creating a dropbox [folder], the client wanted a user to be able to be able to drop-only files 9mostly Word) into the folder, yet still be able to browse the contents of the folder. I have set permissions as below: administrator -- full control everyone-allow -- List...

There is an app here that, when opened, causes all AutoPlay optical media settings to revert to "Take No Action." Is there an AutoPlay setting that can thwart this, in the same manner that a file can be set to READ ONLY?

A Word document suddenly changes into a 'read only' file which cannot be saved or deleted. I have 'saved' under different file names as instructed, but as a result I now have 10 versions of the document, 9 of which I don't want! The 'Help' file says go to 'Properties' and untick the 'read only'...

I realise that this question has been asked before but I don't see anything recently so am not quite sure whether to add to a thread start a new one. I decided to post a new one so forgive me if I have posted badly. I am running Windows 7 x 32b Recently, and all of a sudden, ALL of the folders...