[dba-Tech] Vista Security - readonly folders

Hmmm... Things aren't as I thought.  In this case I was actually trying 
to get at something in the wrong location and that was read-only.


However... (the reason I jumped to that conclusion) the other night I 
had a zip file of stuff I wanted to unzip into a read-only directory. 
Try as I might I could not unzip it, I got a bunch of errors saying the 
destination was read-only.  I ended up moving the zip file to my own 
documents directory, unzipping it there and then copying the unzipped 
contents back to that read-only directory.  And in that case I was 
unable to set the read-only attribute for the folder to not be read-only.

There is something that I do not understand here.

jwcolby wrote:
> Can someone explain to me what is going on in Vista.  In XP I would 
> create directories under the c: drive (Colby Consulting for example) and 
> then move things into that folder and use them.  In Vista everything 
> under C: appears to be read-only, and I cannot set them to not read-only.
> 
> Why is this the case and what do I do about it?  I have my billing 
> database in C:\ColbyConsulting for example.  I can open it but am told 
> that I cannot modify it as it is read-only.  The file itself is NOT 
> read-only but the directory is and apparently the file picks up the 
> attribute from the folder?  Likewise I have a SQL Server database for my 
> billing on my laptop in that same directory and I suspect that SQL 
> Server will not be able to manipulate that file either.
> 
> So what is Vista's purpose in doing this and how do I regain control of 
> my own computer?

-- 
John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com