PC help required please

[BensGrandad]

I have saved all of the letters that I have written recently to a CD and when trying to use an original to write to the same person again (lazy retyping address etc) I tried to save it and it came up Read Only and when I tried the other letters on the CD they were the same.

How can I open that CD to not be read only?

 

[Marc]

Are'nt you friends with Greg Stanley or something?

 

[Lammy]

All CDs are read only. Even if they are re-writable CDs.

Even if you copy them to your hard drive so may well find the files are still read only. Simply right click on the file and de-select the read only option. If you do this for the directory then all the files will be affected. Agian this will only work on your hard drive.

by the time I've finished typing all this the question will probably already be answered!

 

[BensGrandad]

All CDs are read only. Even if they are re-writable CDs.

Even if you copy them to your hard drive so may well find the files are still read only. Simply right click on the file and de-select the read only option. If you do this for the directory then all the files will be affected. Agian this will only work on your hard drive.

by the time I've finished typing all this the question will probably already be answered!

Many Thanks for your help

 

[BensGrandad]

Are'nt you friends with Greg Stanley or something?

What childish medication are you on is it CALPOL?

 

[BensGrandad]

Are'nt you friends with Greg Stanley or something?

What childish medication are you on is it CALPOL?

 

[Marc]

so its true then?

 

[BensGrandad]

I never hide the fact that the company that I owned and ran did work for him but that did not stop me lining up potential buyers of the club with assetts of over £80m with which to buy it.

But I fail to see what relevance this has on my question that I asked.

 

[BensGrandad]

All CDs are read only. Even if they are re-writable CDs.

Even if you copy them to your hard drive so may well find the files are still read only. Simply right click on the file and de-select the read only option. If you do this for the directory then all the files will be affected. Agian this will only work on your hard drive.

by the time I've finished typing all this the question will probably already be answered!

That didnt work

When right clicking and going to properties it showed Attributes then tick boxes for Read only (which was ticked) hidden and archive. If I click the read only thus removing the tick and then press apply the message comes up Error occurred applying attributes to the file access is denied.

Any further advice would be helpful many thanks.

 

[Wardy]

That didnt work

When right clicking and going to properties it showed Attributes then tick boxes for Read only (which was ticked) hidden and archive. If I click the read only thus removing the tick and then press apply the message comes up Error occurred applying attributes to the file access is denied.

Any further advice would be helpful many thanks.

Are you logged in as the administrator?

 

[Wardy]

The other option is to load them from the CD then go to

FILE
SAVE AS
then resave them to your Hard Drive

 

[BensGrandad]

Are you logged in as the administrator?

sorry to appear thick but what does that mean

 

[Wardy]

sorry to appear thick but what does that mean

If you have multiply users on the PC or system, quite normally only the administrator will be able to change the status of files.

 

[BensGrandad]

The other option is to load them from the CD then go to

FILE
SAVE AS
then resave them to your Hard Drive

I copied them to My Documents and then went through the process of clicking the read only box on each to remove the tick but when I saved them back to a new CD it saved them as read only. It is my computer and nobody is registered as even a user on it.

 

[Wardy]

I copied them to My Documents and then went through the process of clicking the read only box on each to remove the tick but when I saved them back to a new CD it saved them as read only.

Don't go through that process. Just open them up in Word (or whatever package you are using) then go to file, save as, then using the arrow at the top next to the box that says save in: select Local Disk (C then my documents. Then close the program down.

Open it again and load it from the new location not the CD.

 

[BensGrandad]

OK I will try that many thanks for your help.

 

[Wardy]

I am no IT person so find it hard to do these things over the net. If I had it in front of me then I can play abit and normally get it to work.

 

[BensGrandad]

I have tried that and saved the letter from the CD to My Documants under another name and then tried to put it onto another CD but the message comes up 'You do not have access to E:\ see your administrator for access to this file.

How do I find the administrator and rectify the problem.