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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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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 -- Regards Frank Kabel Frankfurt, Germany "Bales" schrieb im Newsbeitrag ... 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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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 On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 08:07:01 -0800, "Bales" wrote: 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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