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Windows XP - Folders read-only??

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by mrand

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Was helping someone who recently got a pc with Windows Xp installed. Was trying to run Presto PageManager to get his Umax scanner working. Vistascan, that came on the same cd, wouldn't work. But the Umax source worked.
Got a good Preview, then dida Scan. Scan worked, but got a message about either not enought disk space or incorrect file name. He has about 31gig free. The filename was one automatically chosen by the program.
I went to see where the file was trying to save to. Seems thatthe INBOX folder was Read-Only. I took Read-Only off and Applied. Checked folder again, and the Read-only attribute was back. I then checked the other folders under PageManager. They were All Read-Only. Checked other folders. Read-only... AreALL Windows Xp folders permanently set for Read-Only??
With the Presto PageManager problem, I un-installed and re-installed PageManager and it worked.
Might have been some corruption somewhere. He had some type of Aol login problem, and thought that he could "GoBack" to before the problem started. He had to re-install a few other programs.

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by mrand

When the Not Enought Space error happened, the program was trying to save the scan results. On clicking OK, PageManager hung. Had to End Task.

by gtek

PageMananger may set it own folders so that it is the only program that is allowed to write in those particular folders. But when you have ALL XP folders as read-only, then you have a software bug.

by baddragon

I would check the box "block inheritance", take the copy option, then mdify ntfs permission to suit needs. Must be done from an Admin account.

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