Delete Read Only (Office 2k)

[bkeen101]

I have Office 2000 Small Business. We F-disked my hard drive and installed Windows 98 second edition. I saved all the files in My Documents to CDs. I copied the files back to the hard drive and now I have 7000 office files that are READ ONLY. Is there any way to remove the READ ONLY protection so I don't have to save them all under new names. I would also like to delete some of the files but can't while they are read only.

[hlewton]

If you Right Click them and choose Properties you should be able to uncheck the Read Only attribute. I think you should be able to do multiple files at the same time, I can in Win XP.

Good Luck

[jscher2000]

This might be a case of "DOS to the rescue". Does Win 98 have this command?

<pre>C:>attrib /?
Displays or changes file attributes.

ATTRIB [+R | -R] [+A | -A ] [+S | -S] [+H | -H] [[drive:] [path] filename]
[/S [/D]]

+ Sets an attribute.
- Clears an attribute.
R Read-only file attribute.
A Archive file attribute.
S System file attribute.
H Hidden file attribute.
/S Processes matching files in the current folder
and all subfolders.
/D Processes folders as well.</pre>

If so , it appears to be a matter of pointing attrib at the top level folder like this:

ATTRIB -R c:mydox*.* /S

However, you might test on a smaller universe first because, as you know <img src=/w3timages/censored.gif alt=censored border=0> happens. <img src=/S/smile.gif border=0 alt=smile width=15 height=15>