Ask the Expert

Having troubles with backup

It's Sunday morning in NYC and support for my Easy CD Creator 5 is not available. Maybe you can help me with a backup problem. When I try to copy my Quickbooks and/or Eurdora Pro files to a CD, the backup goes just fine. But, when I try to open the files they say "read only." I can find nothing in glossaries as to what this is. I've gone into the properties file for the files I want to create and they have "Archive" checked, not read-only, etc. Should I uncheck Archive and try to copy? I've also gone in Control Panel and dragged files onto the CD but I still run into the same problem. Thanks for whatever help you can give me.

    Requires Free Membership to View

    Login

You didn't specify whether you were using CD-R or CD-RW. It sounds like you must be using CD-R, as copying the files from one hard drive to another (even a CD-RW drive) should not cause the read-only bit to be turned on. If you're using CD-R, all files will be marked as read-only, since it's a read-only media. If you're copying the files to the drive as a backup, try using a zip product like WinZip. It will create a backup copy on the read-only media that contains read-write versions of the files. Then, when you restore them from the zip file, they will still be read-write. If you're trying to copy the files to CD-R to actually USE them there that will not work, as it is a read-only media.

Editor's note: Do you agree with this expert's response? If you have more to share, post it in one of our .bphAaR2qhqA^0@/searchstorage>discussion forums.

This was first published in May 2002

Join the conversationComment

Share
Comments

    Results

    Contribute to the conversation

    All fields are required. Comments will appear at the bottom of the article.
    Back to top