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by kowalski87

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Hi.
I just bought a Western Digital My Book World Edition external network drive. I've connected it to my network through a router. The software (mionet) that came with the drive didn't work on my computer (it screwed up my internet connection) so I access the drive directly via the ip-adress. But the thing is after I copied a folder to the drive it gets read only status. If I right click on the folder in windows (xp) and untick the box next to "read only" and then click OK and then I right click again it has changed back to read only. Anybody know how to fix this? I don't want read only on any of the files on the drive.

Thanks

/David

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by reb00t

sometimes copying between FAT32 and NTFS or vice versa can cause issues like this.

by woodce

How do I fix it if I copied a file from a FAT drive to my new WD My Book, and now the file is owned by 'root'?

by chnelson04

I was having the same problem with a Linksys router with USB hard drive connection. It turned out that the original device firmware did not support write access to NTFS partitions. I was able to download a firmware upgrade that resolved the problem.

by dabelstein

Hi
I have exactly the same problem with my WD World book. If you find any answers I'd appreciate knowing how to fix it. I am sure it has something to do with admin access...the drive doesn't realise who it is accessing it but i can't figure out how to remove/fix this either....and you're right the mionet software sucks the big one.!!

by jcoburn

hi -- I have the same read-only attribute problem. I originally had a problem running backup to it, but I upgraded the router, and it seemed to work fine. Then, sometime during the last week, it no longer let me copy files to the hard drive. unclicking the RO bit doesn't help.

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