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Ok, i've done Attrib -r and attrib -h and for some reason the directory goes back to Read only... what the hell is my n00b ass doing wrong?

Correction, the WHOLE C: drive is read only... what do i do to fix this... seeing as im the admin on the computer and have all access... this is starting to bug me, because i feel this is the cause of my problems

Your whole C drive can't read only, -nothing- would work properly. You wouldn't even be able to load swap files.



If you, or someone else, burnt your copy of WG onto a cd, chances are they didn't uncheck the read-only box. I did that to my copy, so the only copy I have on CD comes out as read-only.





Go to dos, go to your WG dir, type just 'attrib' and paste your output onto here.

"attrib -r /s" from a dos prompt at "C:\" would remove the read only attribute through the whole drive. though, i agree with speed. it's very very odd that your whole drive could be marked read only and something else must be wrong.



-syn

I still think he should paste his WG dirs attributes so that we can look at it and see if it really is read-only.

would a swap file count as a hidden file?

Originally posted by Relorian

would a swap file count as a hidden file?



usually it is ... if it has a +H attribute, then it would be hidden. also most systems hide files that are have the +S (system) attribute too, unless you turn that off.

I've done the attrib on the directory and still no change.... i'll paste over my screen now



C:\>attrib C:\wgman

C:\WGMAN



C:\>cd wgman



C:\WGMAN>dir

Volume in drive C has no label.

Volume Serial Number is 6479-8D34



Directory of C:\WGMAN



05/01/2003 08:27 PM .

05/01/2003 08:27 PM ..

05/01/2003 08:27 PM 39574913

05/01/2003 08:25 PM 69 39574913.OSG

05/01/2003 08:27 PM GALFIL

05/01/2003 08:27 PM GALMJD

05/01/2003 08:27 PM GALRSY

05/01/2003 08:27 PM GALUIE

07/15/1995 04:30 PM 28,160 GCOMM.FON

05/01/2003 08:27 PM 15 GCSGROUP.NEW

07/15/1995 05:07 PM 8,192 GCSLOCAL.DAT

07/15/1995 05:07 PM 8,192 GCSLOCAL.VIR

05/01/2003 09:44 PM 379,237 GCSVCMAN.EXE

03/15/1996 09:17 PM 121,233 GCSVCMAN.HLP

03/09/1996 02:00 AM 20,992 NPWG16.DLL

03/09/1996 02:00 AM 36,864 NPWG32.DLL

10/01/1996 12:58 PM 2,560 README.WRI

10/29/1996 05:55 PM 6 WGM.VER

07/03/1996 03:00 AM 9,993 WGMUPDAT.EXE

03/19/1996 12:43 PM 9,213 WGSETUP.LST

05/01/2003 08:27 PM WGSIGNUP

05/01/2003 08:27 PM WGSMAINM

05/01/2003 08:27 PM WGSMED

13 File(s) 624,726 bytes

10 Dir(s) 100,193,767,424 bytes free



C:\WGMAN>attrib *.*

C:\WGMAN\39574913.OSG

C:\WGMAN\GCOMM.FON

C:\WGMAN\GCSGROUP.NEW

C:\WGMAN\GCSLOCAL.DAT

C:\WGMAN\GCSLOCAL.VIR

C:\WGMAN\GCSVCMAN.EXE

C:\WGMAN\GCSVCMAN.HLP

C:\WGMAN\NPWG16.DLL

C:\WGMAN\NPWG32.DLL

C:\WGMAN\README.WRI

C:\WGMAN\WGM.VER

C:\WGMAN\WGMUPDAT.EXE

C:\WGMAN\WGSETUP.LST



C:\WGMAN>



Thats everything.... its still marking the folder as a shadowed Read only.... which is i believe the source of all my problems...



Relorian

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That can't be your WG directory. What the hell is that? I've never seen it. Do you have another directory including Worldgroup, not your WGMAN? Your WGman should be in your worldgroup directory.

also, that text doesn't show any of your files marked as read only. they should have an "R" flag next to them if they were.



like:





C:\>attrib *.*

A SHR C:\arcldr.exe

A SHR C:\arcsetup.exe

H C:\AUTOEXEC.BAT

SH C:\boot.ini

H C:\CONFIG.SYS

A C:\Exchange Server Setup Progress.log

A C:\f101v41b527up.exe

A SHR C:\IO.SYS

A SHR C:\MSDOS.SYS

A C:\noejectpc.reg

A SHR C:\NTDETECT.COM

A SHR C:\ntldr

A C:\odbcconf.log

A SH C:\pagefile.sys

A C:\putty.exe

A C:\PUTTY.RND