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I'm not knowledgeable enough to give a prgramming answer. Try creating a
new file with the grains in it and erase the old file. Its a bit tedious,
but it will work.
Lionel
At 10:00 PM 6/20/97 -0400, Philip wrote:
>Greetings all,
>
>It seems I have inadvertantly write-protected some files. At least
>that's what my datavendor's software tells me. The files are all in a
>folder call "grains". How can I turn it off, "un" write-protect them?
>I have no idea how this has come about. I've done nothing with those
>files except include them in layouts.
>
>At the data vendor's suggestion I went to the DOS prompt and tried:
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>attrib -r \equis\grains\*.*
>
>which enabled the update process to go forward (it would stop whenever
>it came to the grains folder). Now, as I try to work with files in the
>"grains" folder, I see that the last few days are missing. All other
>data in my download is being updated successfully.
>
>I should mention that under \explorer\grains\file\properties the "read
>only" box is NOT checked.
>
>Also, for some inexplicable reason, I have been getting a lot of shut
>downs due to "illegal operations."
>
>Thanks,
>Philip
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