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Why is my rewritable CD read only blocked? When I try to unblock it after
selecting the file and hitting Properties, and then unchecking Read Only, a
dialogue box appears using the term quot;atrtributesquot; preventing the unblocking.

All files on a CD are Read-Only. You should never open from or save a file
to any removable media. Copy the file from the CD to your hard drive and
then change the attribute as you wish. Then when you copy that file from
your hard drive and put it back to the CD, it will again be Read-Only. HTH
Otto
quot;Nathan Burkanquot; lt;Nathan gt; wrote in message
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gt; Why is my rewritable CD read only blocked? When I try to unblock it after
gt; selecting the file and hitting Properties, and then unchecking Read Only,
gt; a
gt; dialogue box appears using the term quot;atrtributesquot; preventing the
gt; unblocking.

quot;Otto Moehrbachquot; wrote:

gt; All files on a CD are Read-Only. You should never open from or save a file
gt; to any removable media. Copy the file from the CD to your hard drive and
gt; then change the attribute as you wish. Then when you copy that file from
gt; your hard drive and put it back to the CD, it will again be Read-Only. HTH
gt; Otto
gt; quot;Nathan Burkanquot; lt;Nathan gt; wrote in message
gt; ...
gt; gt; Why is my rewritable CD read only blocked? When I try to unblock it after
gt; gt; selecting the file and hitting Properties, and then unchecking Read Only,
gt; gt; a
gt; gt; dialogue box appears using the term quot;atrtributesquot; preventing the
gt; gt; unblocking.
gt;
gt;
gt; Unfortunately this quot;Rube Goldbergquot; solution does not work.!

Now why would you call this a convoluted method

A CD -- or floppy or thumb drive is not meant to have data flowing back and
forth to it on a real time basis. They are simply storage devices for files at
a particular point in time.

Copying the file from the CD to your HD, working on the file, saving it to your
HD and then copying it to the CD is actually smart computing. You therefore
have 2 copies of a file in case one gets corrupted.
quot;Nathan Burkanquot; gt; wrote in message
...
:
: quot;Otto Moehrbachquot; wrote:
:
: gt; All files on a CD are Read-Only. You should never open from or save a file
: gt; to any removable media. Copy the file from the CD to your hard drive and
: gt; then change the attribute as you wish. Then when you copy that file from
: gt; your hard drive and put it back to the CD, it will again be Read-Only. HTH
: gt; Otto
: gt; quot;Nathan Burkanquot; lt;Nathan gt; wrote in message
: gt; ...
: gt; gt; Why is my rewritable CD read only blocked? When I try to unblock it after
: gt; gt; selecting the file and hitting Properties, and then unchecking Read Only,
: gt; gt; a
: gt; gt; dialogue box appears using the term quot;atrtributesquot; preventing the
: gt; gt; unblocking.
: gt;
: gt;
: gt; Unfortunately this quot;Rube Goldbergquot; solution does not work.!