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| SavannahLion:
--- Quote from: IG-88 on August 18, 2008, 02:39:12 pm ---Filled in I guess. And as for all the sub folders and such everything else is non read only. Which makes this doubly frustrating as everything always defaults back to the original settings. :dunno --- End quote --- Grayed out is expected behavior. Windows doesn't treat the "Read-Only" flag the same between folders and files. In other words, they don't necessarily mean the same thing. You can specify that all the files in that folder bet set to read only, but the folders will never* set. This is why I prefer the way Unix handles permissions. It's a little more intuitive (or I understand them better I guess) right up until you toss in masks. *Exceptions exist with judicious use of the attrib command and desktop.ini. Stay away from attrib, you don't need to use it. |
| ark_ader:
With regard to my previous post, enter safe mode and try my suggestion again. If anything is using or sharing that folder any attempts to change the folder attributes will not have an impact. Also if it is XP make sure you don't have a security policy in place to prevent these changes. Is the drive formatted NTFS or Fat32? Oh and BTW the attrib command is your friend. ;D |
| u_rebelscum:
--- Quote from: SavannahLion on August 18, 2008, 04:44:30 pm --- --- Quote from: IG-88 on August 18, 2008, 02:39:12 pm ---Filled in I guess. And as for all the sub folders and such everything else is non read only. Which makes this doubly frustrating as everything always defaults back to the original settings. :dunno --- End quote --- Grayed out is expected behavior.... --- End quote --- Yup, the problem is somewhere else; filled in box is fine. |
| kudah440:
Its true...it doesnt have anything to do with the checkbox or permissions, the Underwear Gnomes go in and RE-check it when you close the folder! They will pay for their treachery. All fear the Aarvarks. ;) |
| SavannahLion:
--- Quote from: ark_ader on August 18, 2008, 06:50:49 pm ---Oh and BTW the attrib command is your friend. ;D --- End quote --- When using a Windows PC on your daily work, leveraging attrib should not be a necessity. Leveraging the attrib command is either a learning experiment or something has gone really wrong. For the purposes of the OPs problem, his solution lies elsewhere and not necessarily with folder permissions. A bad configuration perhaps that forces Mame32 to fall back to defaults. I have a vague tickling memory of running into a similar problem but the solution escapes me at the moment. Was it that one had to spool out the default configuration within MAME? Crap, it was so long ago. BTW, ark_ader did you take a peek at the KB article I linked to? It explains all about the folder behavior with the Windows GUI in there. |
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