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Backing up Files
Jan 13th, 2005 at 9:19pm
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Question: I have been saving my work via a CD-RW. Works very well except that all the files are read only. If I were to delete an application from my hard drive, by accident or it becomes corrupted, can I replace it with the same application on the the CD-RW?
Or, will it end up being an application that cannot be altered?
Always backed up my Q&A work via a floppy which of course was NOT read only.

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Re: Backing up Files
Reply #1 - Jan 13th, 2005 at 9:22pm
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Question: I have been saving my work via a CD-RW. Works very well except that all the files are read only. If I were to delete an application from my hard drive, by accident or it becomes corrupted, can I replace it with the same application on the the CD-RW?
Or, will it end up being an application that cannot be altered?
Always backed up my Q&A work via a floppy which of course was NOT read only.

Peter


Depending on your OS, when you copy files from a CD back to your hard drive, the files will be read-only. If you go into Windows Explorer and right-click on one of these files, you can uncheck the Read Only attribute. Do that to both the db and dat (dsr and ddt) and your application will be writable again.
  
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Reply #2 - Jan 13th, 2005 at 10:06pm
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Thanks, Hammer

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