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garwin
Joined: 17 Oct 2005
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 Posted: 10/17/05 - 05:00 Post subject: Deleting read only files |
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What is the problem with behavior of the read- only files? Sometimes , when I use my PC at working place I have a problem to do as simple task as moving files and folders and appears to be because it is marked as read-only. I thought read-only files can’t be deleted. But on my home PC I can do it, and there is no way I can set read-only attribute so someone else using my PC will not be able to change or delete it. This is very strange, I ‘d like to know what is behind this.
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schools
Joined: 17 Oct 2005
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| Posted: 06/07/06 - 13:58 Post subject: |
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I agree that it is very strange thing. I am confused pretty much too. Read-only and System attributes are used by Windows Explorer to protect some important files from modifying or deleting. You probably noticed that there are some folders on your PC that you can not delete. These are important system folders like Documents and Settings, Program Files or Windows. Windows Explorer also usually ignores read-only attribute of a file or folder other then these important system files in a sense that you can change or delete it. As I found this feature is related with customize property of a folder ( right-click the folder and choose customize this folder ) and properties itself are stored in desktop.ini for the folders. It is a little complicated and I didn’t catch everything. Anyway, one possible solution for you to protect your files from deleting of modifying is to create separate user accounts for yourself and other users, where you will keep administrative privileges for yourself and create standard user accounts for everyone else. This way the folders you create on that same system partition will be viewable to the others, but no one will be able to modify or delete files. To be sure you can place important files in My Documents folder where it should be completely safe. It is important to know that this is not true for other partitions on your computer, for example if you have separate partition for data. Files on that partition will not be safe from other users.
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