Read only: Good Morning, I was recently editing and cataloging some photos and I guess on one of the text documents not knowing I must of hit "Read only" and it changed all my word...

Swede Loc: Trail, BC Canada

Good Morning, I was recently editing and cataloging some photos and I guess on one of the text documents not knowing I must of hit "Read only" and it changed all my word documents on the computer and all other drives to read only.
Now I'm fairly positive it's just a setting in the computer because I took one of the flash drives out and tried it in another computer and it works fine.
This is a little above my pay grade and I have no idea how to return it back. Hope someone can help!

Thanks
Swede

TriX Loc: Raleigh, NC

Right click on the drive or the folder that you changed and select “properties” and uncheck “read only”.

Swede Loc: Trail, BC Canada

TriX wrote:

Right click on the drive or the folder that you changed and select “properties” and uncheck “read only”.

I have done that many times, on different drives. The check mark goes away, still read only

TriX Loc: Raleigh, NC

Swede wrote:

I have done that many times, on different drives. The check mark goes away, still read only

Have you rebooted after making the change? Also, you may not be able to change OS or system files, so rather than executing this on the entire drive, do it on a specific folder such as documents. You should get a confirmation after it changes all the files in the folder, which can take awhile.

rehess Loc: South Bend, Indiana, USA

Swede wrote:

I have done that many times, on different drives. The check mark goes away, still read only

Do you do check the box for files contained by the folder?

TriX Loc: Raleigh, NC

Btw, one last thing to check. Check the credentials of the user you logged in as to make sure you have both read and write (admin) privileges.

Swede Loc: Trail, BC Canada

TriX wrote:

Have you rebooted after making the change? Also, you may not be able to change OS or system files, so rather than executing this on the entire drive, do it on a specific folder such as documents. You should get a confirmation after it changes all the files in the folder, which can take awhile.

Yes, couple times

Swede Loc: Trail, BC Canada

TriX wrote:

Have you rebooted after making the change? Also, you may not be able to change OS or system files, so rather than executing this on the entire drive, do it on a specific folder such as documents. You should get a confirmation after it changes all the files in the folder, which can take awhile.

The files aren't very big 20 photos and photo text log, 200 words top. It was working fine all morning, in the procedure I've been using for awhile. I had just finished editing a file, had properties open and I think i hit read only and closed the properties box.
I don't know why it would do the read only to all the files, on all the drives, or did it just do it to a setting in the camera.
Swede

Swede Loc: Trail, BC Canada

rehess wrote:

Do you do check the box for files contained by the folder?

It does nothing to the photos just screws up the text, can still edit the photos

Swede

Swede Loc: Trail, BC Canada

TriX wrote:

Btw, one last thing to check. Check the credentials of the user you logged in as to make sure you have both read and write (admin) privileges.

Yes I do

JamesCurran Loc: Trenton ,NJ

Swede wrote:

Good Morning, I was recently editing and catalogin... (show quote)

That makes little sense (I'm gonna assume you are using Windows; I know virtually nothing about MacOS)

It's quite difficult to set every file on a drive to read-only. And I know of no single command that would do anything like that across multiple drives.

Swede Loc: Trail, BC Canada

JamesCurran wrote:

That makes little sense (I'm gonna assume you are using Windows; I know virtually nothing about MacOS)

It's quite difficult to set every file on a drive to read-only. And I know of no single command that would do anything like that across multiple drives.

I know it makes no sense, It's Windows 7, If I move a flash drive to another machine it works fine, so it has to be a setting in the machine!

There is Norton installed on all machines.

Thanks
Swede

TriX Loc: Raleigh, NC

Swede wrote:

I know it makes no sense, It's Windows 7, If I move a flash drive to another machine it works fine, so it has to be a setting in the machine!

There is Norton installed on all machines.

Thanks
Swede

So is it just the flash drive that’s now read only, or is everything on that Win 7 computer read only, including any flash drives you plug in?

I have to say that on principle, I would toss the Norton, even though that’s unlikely to be the source of your problem (unless Norton has blocked writing to any drive as a misguided “security measure”) - it’s such a resource hog and it can be so intrusive. At the beginning of Windows, Norton was a viable virus detector, but the OS and other security applications have now become a better choice, but just my personal opinion.