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re: "read only" appears when saving to a USB Thursday, January 15, 2009 at 7:26 am Posted by C K (6910 messages posted) Can you save files to the USB device in Explorer? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: "read only" appears when saving to a USB Thursday, January 15, 2009 at 8:27 am Posted by DEX (11847 messages posted) Dealing with Unwanted Spyware and Parasites Click Here Many files in Word are read only,, you didn't say what the file name is,,,,,is it by chance a dot file ? Some doc files have a pass word or a protection tag and you can only copy them in safe mode..windows may be using the file at the time you are trying to copy them over. Try this make a new folder and copy the files over in safemode, then remove the tags then copy them to your usb device after you restart the machine.. === ==== Are you a wood worker ?,if so Click Here On Wednesday, January 14, 2009 at 10:53 am, Karen wrote: > Please help me to change'read only' protection, so I can save onto USB stick: >When I tried to 'save' a document in Word 2000 onto a USB stick , the program tells >me that the document is 'read only' and it won't save it onto that device. I went >to 'help' and followed those limited instructions, but still does not work. [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 2000 Discussion Forum