Giuseppe Bilotta
Thursday, November 13, 2003 Idris S Hamid wrote:
I think I found the problem:
I backed up some stuff on a cd; when I transferred the files to my other computer all the file properties read "read-only", so whenever eomega tried to modify a temporary file (fls, log, etc) it was denied permission.
Is there a way in windows to globally change every file in a given directory from read-only?
If all the files are in the same directory, just select them all, right click and deselect the read-only attribute. Otherwise, get the shareware filemanager "Total Commander" from www.ghisler.com; it has a "flat" view that allows you to see all files in all subdirectories of a particular directory and manipulate them all together.
Or if you have an interest, you can install the Cygnus tools and from the command line do, cd my_directory find . ! -perm -0200 -print0 | xargs -0 chmod u+w ... which says, find everything under this subdirectory that doesn't have write permission for the file owner, and turn on write permission for the file owner on those files. -- --Ed L Cashin | PGP public key: ecashin@uga.edu | http://noserose.net/e/pgp/