So i need help

sweetkastings · Post by **sweetkastings** » June 6, 2006, 5:42 pm

I didnt want to post this in the computer section, because I wanted to get an answer asap and get this over with, so please forgive me.

Anyways, My father is a mechanic at a local Ice Cream making factory, and he has been putting items he needs on a spreadsheet in microsoft works, and then saving them all together on a CD-RW... but here strikes a problem, he want's to do some work on some old ones and then just save, but for some reason the program wont let us, because it is a "read only file" which I have no clue what it is about. It is saved as a (.xlr) if that means anything.

Curently, I have all the files saved In 3 different folders saved in 1 giant folder, and everything deleted off of the CD-RW... If anyone could explain to me what process I should go through to make the files easily saved on the disk without haveing to delete the whole disk then saving all the files over again will be great...

Thanks in advance
Sweetkastings

Aslanna · Post by **Aslanna** » June 6, 2006, 5:51 pm

When you burn stuff to CD/DVD it sets the Read Only flag. Which is retained when you copy the files to a hard drive. Right click them in Explorer and choose properties and then uncheck the Read Only box at the bottom.

(Unless you mean update them in place on the CD. Which you more than likely can't do depending on how the rewritable disc was burned. Or something.)

sweetkastings · Post by **sweetkastings** » June 6, 2006, 5:59 pm

How would I change it so I can save them from file to CD with out changing the CD...

Is there a way to correctly burn it?

Boogahz · Post by **Boogahz** » June 6, 2006, 6:20 pm

sweetkastings wrote:How would I change it so I can save them from file to CD with out changing the CD...

Is there a way to correctly burn it?

I think that you are looking at the CD-RW as a media which can be changed "on the fly" like older 3.5" floppies. It might be a better idea to get a USB drive.

Mr Bacon · Post by **Mr Bacon** » June 6, 2006, 8:01 pm

I refused to read this because 1) You're sweetkastings and 2) You explicitly posted this in general instead of computers.

Of all the forums, general is always the last forum I read. Usually it's full of BS topics from Stragi that matter not.

Aslanna · Post by **Aslanna** » June 6, 2006, 10:28 pm

But I thought you were Stragi.

Clatis · Post by **Clatis** » June 7, 2006, 4:04 am

shit, so did i, who is Mr bacon?

Morgrym · Post by **Morgrym** » June 7, 2006, 8:03 am

Clatis wrote:shit, so did i, who is Mr bacon?

Rellix trying to fit in. Should be Mr. Waffles though.

Morgrym · Post by **Morgrym** » June 7, 2006, 8:08 am

Try saving them to the computer and re saving them again on the computer using the save as function (change the file name a bit). Make changes and back up again on the RW. Just a suggestion, my knowledge of RW is minor. Like Boogahz suggested, get a USB drive. Those things are much more business friendly.

Mr Bacon · Post by **Mr Bacon** » June 7, 2006, 9:00 am

Morgrym wrote:
Clatis wrote:shit, so did i, who is Mr bacon?
Rellix trying to fit in. Should be Mr. Waffles though.

Yes, because my desire to obtain Stragi status is so obvious.

I really don't give a shit what my name is as long as it's an object! I'm liking the Mr. title.

Kylere · Post by **Kylere** » June 7, 2006, 9:32 am

Select Save as instead of save and change the name to "filename_todaysdatehere"