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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.

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Swede

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May 21, 2020 17:22:23 #

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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

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May 21, 2020 17:21:31 #

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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

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May 21, 2020 17:19:34 #

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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

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May 21, 2020 17:06:18 #

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TriX wrote:

Yes, couple times

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May 21, 2020 16:05:13 #

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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

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May 21, 2020 15:20:42 #

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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!

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Swede