Copy them back to the hard drive and change the properties by unchecking "read only" in Windows Explorer. Otherwise you’ll never be able to work on them.
Larry Berman
As far as I can tell, I can still edit the photos no problem.
TI hate to be so ignorant but, where do you make the change? I have’nt deleted the pics from My Pictures yet. All I did was right click on My Pictures and then ‘send to’ and D:\. JS.
If you’re reading the images off a CD, you can edit all you want but can’t save. The images on your hard drive are editable though.
Copying images from a CD to the hard drive retains the read only properties. Right click on the images in Windows Explorer and choose Properties and uncheck Read Only. Then you’ll be able to make changes and save them.
Larry Berman
And remember that you do not have to do this one image at a time: in Windows Explorer, click on Edit>Select All, then right click anywhere on the selection, then click on Properties, and finally uncheck the Read Only box in the Attributes section.
Regards,
Rafael
Well, it all sound good but, I still am not having luck with this. Sorry for the trouble.
I can do as either of you say and it seems to work but, if I check the properties a second time, they are once again ‘read only’. I went through the procedures you both describes and sent them to the CD again, and the lock still appears.
What am I missing here? JS.
I can do as either of you say and it seems to work but, if I check the properties a second time, they are once again ‘read only’.
after copying to the hard drive, select the files ON the hard drive that you want to be able to edit. Open the properties window. Uncheck Read Only. Click Apply then click OK. (This WILL NOT work on the cd disk. Those are write protected by nature if they’re stored on CD-R disks.)
OK, lets start from ground zero. I have a ton of photos in My Pictures that I want to move to a CD and delete from My Photos. For a bone head like me, whats the easiest way to do this and still be able to edit the pics once they are on the CD? Thanks for being so patient. JS.
You can’t edit the pictures on a CD. CD’s are not hard drives. You need to edit them before moving them to the CD.
Larry Berman
What you can do is get a new hard drive and put it in as your D Drive. Costco (assuming you live in the states) is selling 120 gig Maxtor drives for only $110 and 160 gig Maxtor drives for only $130. Then you can move all the pictures to your second hard drive and you’ll be able to edit them.
Larry Berman
Once you copy the files to the CD, if you want to edit them you will have to copy them back to the hard drive, and remove the Read Only attribute.
Regards,
Rafael
Well that stinks! I guess we will have to do it their way then.
Thanks for all your help! JS.
You can do what you are talking about if you use a re-writable CD and the appropriate software application that allows for drag/dropping, editing files on the CD-RW, such as DirectCD, or similar.
Gos…
Some basic points that have not been spelled out that’s causing the confusion in your mind:
1/ The moment you copy files from *anywhere* to a CD they get the Read Only property. What this means is you can open them, edit them but you can’t save them back to the CD or HDD unless you change the name. A CD is after all an archive….
2/ Solution 1 is to save the reworked file to the HDD with another name. Then copy it to a CD
3/ Solution 2 is to copy the file from the CD to the HDD, change its properties to and then edit/save it.
After all, by now you have space on your HDD as you’ve already archived everything and deleted those files from the HDD.
Cheers…
JJ
1/ The moment you copy files from *anywhere* to a CD they get the Read
Only
property.
Not if they are copied onto a Rewritable CD-RW.
Thanks for all the help. I ended up transferring the photos to one of the other machines in the office. Again, thank you all for the kind help! JS.
