Desktop

Ask something
Discussion Locked

Mass File Type Association Changes

0 helpful
2 replies

by james goerke

Closed to new repliesThis discussion is closed. It stays readable, but it takes no new replies.

I have a client who has about 600 MB of word and excel documents that somehow got changed to all read only after a backup restore. I was wondering if there was a utility available to change all the file types of all the files in a specific folder all at once. Thanks.

James Goerke
TheGeex Technologies
http://www.thegeex.com
Get your FREE IT CD V1.1 Today!

2 replies

by mandar

You can do one thing... I have done this long ago. You can select all these files using select all option and select properties by right clicking on it and uncheck the check box stating it as a read only.

Regards,
Mandar

by grail

If all your files are in the same folder, start up a console prompt (DOS prompt) and type:

attrib -r *.*

If they're not, type:

attrib -r /s *.*

...which will process everything in the subfolders from where you are.

You can substitute a plus symbol instead to make everything read-only if you like, i.e., attrib +r instead.

This discussion is closed to new replies.