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Changing the Read-only attribute Folder in XP Pro

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IG-88:
No dumb questions when it comes to this windows crap :P  I assume it's checked cause I can uncheck it and make my changes in mame.

See, the heart of my problem is that I want to change some of my default global options in mame32. Like game display graphics and whatnot. I can make the changes and play my games the way I want but as soon as I close mame down and later re-open it everything defaults back to the original settings. So I figured it was because the folder was set at read-only and not keeping the settings.

As for the permissions thing. I am the admin so I thought I could make any changes to the folders I wanted. Is there something else I should look at.

( & what is *NIX? )

fatfingers:

As I understand it, that checkbox is only there to annoy people on XP.  It doesn't actually do anything.

Hoopz:

--- Quote from: fatfingers on August 17, 2008, 02:53:40 pm ---
As I understand it, that checkbox is only there to annoy people on XP.  It doesn't actually do anything.



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As is the ability to try and remove it.  I never had success with that.  Going to the root folder v. sub-folders, etc.  What a pain.

u_rebelscum:

--- Quote from: IG-88 on August 17, 2008, 10:44:32 am ---No dumb questions when it comes to this windows crap :P  I assume it's checked cause I can uncheck it and make my changes in mame.

See, the heart of my problem is that I want to change some of my default global options in mame32. Like game display graphics and whatnot. I can make the changes and play my games the way I want but as soon as I close mame down and later re-open it everything defaults back to the original settings. So I figured it was because the folder was set at read-only and not keeping the settings.

As for the permissions thing. I am the admin so I thought I could make any changes to the folders I wanted. Is there something else I should look at.

( & what is *NIX? )

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*NIX is short for "all the variants of unix, including aix, solaris, BSD, and linux".

I am repeating a prior question, but: Is it checked or "box filled in"?  Checked means there is a check mark in the box, "box filled in" means the box is filled with a grey/green/(depends on theme) square; you can go through the three states by clicking in the box if it starts filled in.  What about the files in the folder?  Have you checked the sub-folders?  (Specifically the ini folder, and the mame*.ini in that folder in your case)?  I wouldn't worry if the box is filled in and the files inside the folder aren't read only.

IG-88:
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

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