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Old 09-11-2004, 09:35 AM
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The "Read only" setting on folders is meaningless and Windows ignores it. Check any folder (not file) on the drive and you'll see they're all marked "read only." Nobody but Microsoft programmers know why.

The read-only setting for folders is actually 'disabled' as denoted
by the solid block in that option's tick-box. You can put a tick in it
but when you close and re-check it, the tick has gone and the solid block is there again. So you are incorrect in saying that all folders are marked 'read only'. They are actually all marked as 'read only disabled', which makes perfect sense to most of us, including MS programmers.
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