Been a long time since I visited the site, being lucky or careful, I guess.
Anyway got a brand new Win 7 64 bit lap top on Thurs. I have been slowly installing programs to get it up and running. Of course MS has about +150 updates. After installing the most recent updates last night, today I find that I am unable to write to any file contained in sub-folders in the top document folder.
I did some research and tried:
1. Deselecting the read only in a couple of the folders, no luck but some experts said the read only to folders doesn't do anything. lol I can't write to any of them.
2. Using command prompt attempted to remove the read only with attrib -r -s c:\users\ etc. This didn't change anything, still unable to write to folders.
3. Specifically using excel 2000 (with excel 2007 installed also) saved a file to a file that is created when excel can't save, opened that file and saved as to the documents folder. I was then able to move the file from documents to the correct sub-folder with no issues. This took about 5 steps when it should have been completed with the save.
So do you guys have any suggestions as to how to remove the read only attribute from the folders or at least allow programs like excel, word etc to write/overwrite files in the sub folders?
I am including the HiJackThis file even though I don't believe it to be a maleware or spy ware or virus.
Yes any folder within My Documents. I didn't add but all of the files DO NOT HAVE READ ONLY attributes, but excel could not write/overwrite them.
In partial answer yes copy/paste works, maybe I didn't explain it properly. That was part of the 5 step process reference.
For a new file, yes, I can write to one, but it appears in the "Compatabilty files". I thought that was done away with in Win 7, I hated it in Vista. Also I was able to over write, but again in compatibily files. grrrrrrrrr
How do I delete that whole procedure of compatibility files?
I can't believe you don't know about this pos from MS. It is a tab on explorer. Here is the folder that I copied into. Note I opened this folder from a link in a sub-folder to documents named games. The "failed" excel files are also located here, note second image.
What you are viewing is a Win 7 explorer. The UAC is positioned one notch below always notify. Since my last post concerning the compatibility files, I have done some experimentation.
When saving to a pure sub document in My Documents there appears to be no issues, it is only when saving to a link to a program file folder or a program file folder, In each of the last two examples files where again saved to the Compatibility files. What I may need to do is to move those data files to my docs.
That being said there still may be an issue with other programs that have data with the program folders. The first time that I observed the compatibility issue was with a Vista machine editing game maps for Heroes of Might and Magic V. The original files were always located where they should have been but the edited version was within compatibility files. This caused a lot of grief because I believed the editor was in error not saving the edits. It was only while trying to think of what is happening that I observed the tab, and when selected there were the edited files(neither file was read only). So I deleted the original and moved the edited to where it belonged. You might suspect that I forgot to do this as time passed not remembering the agony, but I did. I have a Win 7 game lap top and that one has NEVER given me this problem, only this newer one.
Your screenshots clearly show Program Files (x86), which is a virtualizable folder; however, not all sub-folders are necessarily virtualizable folders.
What basically happens is that when you attempt to save a file or an app does the same involving a virtualizable folder, it may appear to be there, but in all likelihood the output has been redirected to the Virtual Store located under your user profile -
