From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/14082 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ed L Cashin Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Permission denied Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 12:39:37 -0500 Sender: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Message-ID: <87n0as8dgm.fsf@uga.edu> References: <3FB3DBEA.852C1AC4@lamar.colostate.edu> <156307762.20031113223717@iol.it> <3FB403A2.C3BDFC6F@lamar.colostate.edu> <1005168842.20031113235818@iol.it> Reply-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1069264056 14254 80.91.224.253 (19 Nov 2003 17:47:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 17:47:36 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Wed Nov 19 18:47:33 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from ref.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.13] helo=ref.ntg.nl) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AMWQP-0006N8-00 for ; Wed, 19 Nov 2003 18:47:33 +0100 Original-Received: from ref.ntg.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84CED10B38; Wed, 19 Nov 2003 18:47:29 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: from marblerye.cs.uga.edu (marblerye.cs.uga.edu [128.192.101.172]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id 4C2F610B2F for ; Wed, 19 Nov 2003 18:39:41 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: (qmail 2353 invoked from network); 19 Nov 2003 17:39:37 -0000 Original-Received: from localhost (HELO uga.edu) (127.0.0.1) by 0 with SMTP; 19 Nov 2003 17:39:37 -0000 Original-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl In-Reply-To: <1005168842.20031113235818@iol.it> (Giuseppe Bilotta's message of "Thu, 13 Nov 2003 23:58:18 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090014 (Oort Gnus v0.14) Emacs/21.2 (i386-debian-linux-gnu) Errors-To: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:14082 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:14082 Giuseppe Bilotta writes: > Thursday, November 13, 2003 Idris S Hamid wrote: > >> I think I found the problem: > >> I backed up some stuff on a cd; when I transferred the files to my other >> computer all the file properties read "read-only", so whenever eomega tried >> to modify a temporary file (fls, log, etc) it was denied permission. > >> Is there a way in windows to globally change every file in a given directory >> from read-only? > > If all the files are in the same directory, just select them > all, right click and deselect the read-only attribute. > Otherwise, get the shareware filemanager "Total Commander" from > www.ghisler.com; it has a "flat" view that allows you to see > all files in all subdirectories of a particular directory and > manipulate them all together. Or if you have an interest, you can install the Cygnus tools and from the command line do, cd my_directory find . ! -perm -0200 -print0 | xargs -0 chmod u+w ... which says, find everything under this subdirectory that doesn't have write permission for the file owner, and turn on write permission for the file owner on those files. -- --Ed L Cashin | PGP public key: ecashin@uga.edu | http://noserose.net/e/pgp/