Re: write protected??

"KatWoman" <JolieXPrincessXKatanaXXX@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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"Richey" <rich@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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To remove the lock on all files in a folder, use Notebook and make
file named (for example) FIX.BAT with the line shown below, save it
in the folder of files, then double-click on it.

attrib -r *.*

It's so simple when you get past WindoZe.




Ahh, those were the days! Good old-fashioned DOS batch files. That's
OK, but as I said, there is no read-only attribute set. Right-click
on the offending file in explorer, and view the properties, but the
ReadOnly and Hidden attribute boxes are clear. It's a mystery why it
happens. If I download say 40 pictures from the camera, and maybe 15
have been taken in portrait format, about half will rotate happilly
and the others will complain, then revert to landscape. If it really
was read only, I wouldn't be able to write over it from PSE4 or
anything else for that matter. It doesn't bother me, I just get on
with it in PSE, and one day the mystery might just be revealed??

some files when I rotate them Win Pic fax viewer says it has to save
them over the orig files, overwriting the original so it won't let you
unless you click yes. The program itself is re-writing your original
files when you rotate and instead of just previewing the rotate it is
actually having to change the file??
dunno if this making sense

I




I don't think it does overwrite it. Example: If I have say 5 pictures
that need rotating by 90deg, it might do the first one without complaint,
at which point it HAS overwritten the original file. Now if it complains
at the second one, although it shows me the picture with the correct
orientation, when I move on, and then move back again, it has reverted to
it's original and I have to rotate it again. The complaint from the
wizzard always says that the file is write protected, and I wonder if
there is some subtle difference between 'write protected' and 'read
only'. If I look with windows explorer and the right-click properties,
it is not read only. I have even gone to a does box and used the attrib
command, but that also shows the file as not being read only.

It's just completely weird, and as I say, I just do it all in elements
now and have done with it. Elements never complains about write
protection or read only, it just turns the picture. It's nothing more
than curiosity now, because I am so used to it.

Thanks anyway to everyone who has tried to answer this. I don't suppose
even Microsoft would be able to explain it.

Keep snapping folks.
.

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