I'm trying to edit my ID tags but I can't change my folders from the Read Only but everytime I deselect it changes back to Read Only(Windows XP). How do I fix this when I deselect Read Only it stays deleselected?

Thanks,
-dman

Three possibilities come to my mind:
1. These folders heirdom (or however they call it) attributes from their parent folders
2. These folders are on read-only medium (like CD-ROM)
3. Your user-account doesn't have proper permissions to change attributes of these folders

The word is "inherit," if I remember correctly.

I think there is a bug in Windows XP where if you only select a single directory, it shows a grayed box for Read Only, when it should show a clear box.

What happens if you select lots of files and directories at the same time?

I tried to do it individually and then I also tried to do it mass style....both with no luck. I also tried the parent folder of all the other folders and still no luck. The files themselves aren't read only, but the folders are and it's enough to keep me from writeing information to the files. Any suggestions?

Thanks,
-darin

Try to copy or move the files to another folder which doesn't have read-only flag set (preferably to some FAT32 volume). They should inherit its attributes then.

Are you trying to modify the attributes of My Documents or a folder inside My Documents?

No these are my Flac files that are in thier own folders.....


I have like over 100 music folders....that would be a pain to do that...... I tried takeing one of the folders out of the parent fplder and placed it as a parent folder and it still had the horrible green sqaure in the Read Only.

Ok, after doing some research on the Mircosoft support site it seem that I have to go into CMD.EXE to do it. So, I did....but the problem is I keep getting a message that saids 'Parameter format not correct". I believe I am doing it right.....this is what I typed:

H:\>attrib -r -s H:\Flac Files II /s


The -r is to take away the read only file attrib.
the -s is to take away the system default of read only file attrib
and the /s is to change the sub folders and files as well.


But like I said, I keep getting a "Parameter format not correct". Anyone know what I am doing wrong?

Thanks,
-Darin

File paths containing blanks should be placed in quotation marks. Try this: