Image lock

Files on CDs are by default marked as read only.
Copy the files to a folder on your computer, then right click on the folder, go to properties and uncheck the read only box.

AlexR.

kah22 wrote:

I’m new, very new, to Photoshop cs. At present I am working my way through a selection of Photoshop cs books.

Last night I was experimenting with a cd full of photographs that I had borrowed from a mate (he is not a photoshop user). The images were saved to disk in jpeg format.

When I looked at the thumnails you get from the toggle file browser icon I noticed that they were all locked. Can anyone tell me how to remove that lock and what put it there in the first place. It wasn’t my friend, he just transfered direct from his camera to his computer and then saved to CD.

Many thanks for any help you can offer.

Kevin

Many thanks
Kevin

Alex R …

Files on CDs are by default marked as read only.
Copy the files to a folder on your computer, then right click on the folder, go to properties and uncheck the read only box.

AlexR.

kah22 wrote:

I’m new, very new, to Photoshop cs. At present I am working my way through a selection of Photoshop cs books.

Last night I was experimenting with a cd full of photographs that I had borrowed from a mate (he is not a photoshop user). The images were saved to disk in jpeg format.

When I looked at the thumnails you get from the toggle file browser icon I noticed that they were all locked. Can anyone tell me how to remove that lock and what put it there in the first place. It wasn’t my friend, he just transfered direct from his camera to his computer and then saved to CD.

Many thanks for any help you can offer.

Kevin

When I looked at the thumnails you get from the toggle file browser icon I noticed that they were all locked.

Ah, yes. You’re using Windows, aren’t you?

Microsoft Windows is an operating system built around many poor design decisions. Some of those poor decisions are architectural (making Windows interprocess communication rely on RPC, for example); some of those poor decisions are a lot more trivial.

In Windows, if you copy a file from a CD to your hard drive, it’s locked, because, well, a CD is locked, so the files on a CD are locked, so when you copy the files, you still want them to be locked, right? Yes, it’s really dumb, but there it is.

Right click on the file on the hard driv,e go down to Properties, and unlock the file.

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When I looked at the thumnails you get from the toggle file browser icon I noticed that they were all locked. Can anyone tell me how to remove that lock and what put it there in the first place. It wasn’t my friend, he just transfered direct from his camera to his computer and then saved to CD.
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That is because they are on a CD. A CD is a (usually) read-only device, and Windows will automatically mark all files as "Read Only."

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I’m new, very new, to Photoshop cs. At present I am working my way through a selection of Photoshop cs books.

Last night I was experimenting with a cd full of photographs that I had borrowed from a mate (he is not a photoshop user). The images were saved to disk in jpeg format.

When I looked at the thumnails you get from the toggle file browser icon I noticed that they were all locked. Can anyone tell me how to remove that lock and what put it there in the first place. It wasn’t my friend, he just transfered direct from his camera to his computer and then saved to CD.

Many thanks for any help you can offer.

Kevin

Tacit wrote:

In Windows, if you copy a file from a CD to your hard drive, it’s locked, because, well, a CD is locked, so the files on a CD are locked, so when you copy the files, you still want them to be locked, right? Yes, it’s really dumb, but there it is.

Older versions of Windows did that, but Windows XP removes the Read Only attribute automatically, when you copy files from a CD or DVD to a hard drive.

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Tacit wrote:

Microsoft Windows is an operating system built around many poor design decisions. Some of those poor decisions are architectural (making Windows interprocess communication rely on RPC, for example)

Since when does interprocess communication in Windows have to rely on RPC? I know of at least four other methods: Mailslots, TCP/IP, named pipes and WM_COPYDATA.

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Nicholas Sherlock

Tacit wrote:

When I looked at the thumnails you get from the toggle file browser icon I noticed that they were all locked.

Ah, yes. You’re using Windows, aren’t you?

Microsoft Windows is an operating system built around many poor design decisions. Some of those poor decisions are architectural (making Windows interprocess communication rely on RPC, for example); some of those poor decisions are a lot more trivial.

In Windows, if you copy a file from a CD to your hard drive, it’s locked, because, well, a CD is locked, so the files on a CD are locked, so when you copy the files, you still want them to be locked, right? Yes, it’s really dumb, but there it is.

Right click on the file on the hard driv,e go down to Properties, and unlock the file.

I have found (from my experiences) in XP Pro that when you copy files from a CD (which were obviously read-only on CD) they are no longer read-only. I backup and reinstall images and other files all the time and they are always read/writable when restored to the hard drive.

Brian.

Since when does interprocess communication in Windows have to rely on RPC?

Since Windows 95.

I know of at least four other methods: Mailslots, TCP/IP, named pipes and WM_COPYDATA.

We’re talking at cross purposes. Yes, an application developer can use any of these techniques (or others), but Windows itself relies on RPC; you can not disable RPC on a Windows box because then certain portions of Windows will fail. Microsoft made the (poor) decision to use RPC, which means in the real world that any RPC security vulnerability is a potential root exploit.

That, and Microsoft’s decision to make the Explorer rendering libraries run as the rough equivalent of kernel tasks with root access, and design decisions in Microsoft’s implementation of DCOM, are what make Windows the security nightmare that it is.

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