[Wol]

Windows Seven: HP desktop with C Drive internal plus two USB hard drives external.

I cannot edit images that are on the external drives: the program says "Error writing to file" or "Access denied". Looking at the Images folder, I saw it had the "Read only" attribute - so I changed that to "Read and write".

Tried again - same error message. Looking at the attributes for the folder again - it was back to "Read only"!

Another W Seven "feature"?

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No - it's not another Windows 7 'feature'. That particular misunderstanding of Windows folder attributes has existed for several years. A folder cannot be "read only". That attribute only applies to files. If you look carefully at the properties page for a folder, the 'read only' tick-box always defaults to a solid box which means that setting cannot be applied to a folder, it's an irrelevant setting as far as folders are concerned.

You will need to 'untick' the read-only attribute for each file you wish to edit, or create a file with a different name after editing it.

[phillipcorcoran]

No - it's not another Windows 7 'feature'. That particular misunderstanding of Windows folder attributes has existed for several years. A folder cannot be "read only". That attribute only applies to files. If you look carefully at the properties page for a folder, the 'read only' tick-box always defaults to a solid box which means that setting cannot be applied to a folder, it's an irrelevant setting as far as folders are concerned.

You will need to 'untick' the read-only attribute for each file you wish to edit, or create a file with a different name after editing it.

[Wol]

No - it's not another Windows 7 'feature'. That particular misunderstanding of Windows folder attributes has existed for several years. A folder cannot be "read only". That attribute only applies to files. If you look carefully at the properties page for a folder, the 'read only' tick-box always defaults to a solid box which means that setting cannot be applied to a folder, it's an irrelevant setting as far as folders are concerned.

You will need to 'untick' the read-only attribute for each file you wish to edit, or create a file with a different name after editing it.

Thanks for that. Perhaps you can answer another similar question: I much prefer to show "Details" in all my folders rather than the icons or tiles. I can't seem to make the system show details for every folder - I have to set each one individually. And even then they often change back to icons when my back's turned! I seem to remember that in XP you selected "details" in the control panel and it set this for every folder and file but it doesn't seem to do it in Seven?