Thank you for the hint. I never thought of leaving W98 for DOS to do the
job.
the original command you listed did not seem to work, so I got in the parent
directory and ran
attrib -r /s and that did the trick.
I applied this to a directory tree with > 10,000 files in it, not all or
which had.
There now appear to be ~50 files that were not changed, but which responded
to being selected and then changed by using Properties.
Strange.
again,thanks.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jay Daniels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2001 1:47 PM
Subject: Re: * informant * attributes
> At 09:55 AM 1/10/01 -0800 lensman3 wrote:
> >How can I reset the read-only attribute for all files in a directory and
its sub-directories?
> >I am restoring files from a CD-R to the HDD and they are assigned an R
attribute which I am now removing on a directory by directory basis by
selecting the files and bringing up the properties panel, then removing the
R check.
> >Thanks for your help.
>
> CD mydir && ATTRIB -R /S
>
> where mydir is the directory that contains the files and folders you want
to change the attribute on.
>
> Finally, while still in mydir do..
> DIR /A:R /S
>
> dir should not output any file names since now there are no more read-only
files in that directory.
>
>
> /jay
>
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