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All Excel files on my RW-CDs became read-only when opened and all newly
created files are read-only when filed to disc. Why is this occurring and how
do I eliminate this from happening? If files are saved to hard drive, this
does not occur.
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Hi
one should never save/open Excel files directly from a removable storage
medium. This could lead to file corruptions quite easily. So always best to
copy the files first to your harddisc

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Frank Kabel
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All Excel files on my RW-CDs became read-only when opened and all newly
created files are read-only when filed to disc. Why is this occurring and
how
do I eliminate this from happening? If files are saved to hard drive, this
does not occur.



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Gord Dibben
 
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Bales

That is the default behaviour when saving/copying to CD.

All depends upon how the files get "burned" to the CD.

With regular Windows burning, they will always be read-only.

If you were to use a packet writing application like Nero InCD, files would
not be read only and individual files could be erased or written to on the CD
just like a big floppy disk.

See this google search thread

http://snipurl.com/6llq

Note the link to Alex Nicholl's site.

Also http://www.webtree.ca/windowsxp/cdr_info.htm

I agree with Frank's caveat......NEVER save to or open from removable media
directly.

Gord Dibben Excel MVP


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All Excel files on my RW-CDs became read-only when opened and all newly
created files are read-only when filed to disc. Why is this occurring and how
do I eliminate this from happening? If files are saved to hard drive, this
does not occur.


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