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re: Rich Text/PDF won't open. Wednesday, December 24, 2008 at 5:41 pm Posted by triplate (20834 messages posted) Great...........and your question is??? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Rich Text/PDF won't open. Wednesday, December 24, 2008 at 6:04 pm Posted by geek9pm (1030 messages posted) I donno.. maybe was going to ask how to open the documents in the restricted folder. But he doesn't remember how he did it. I can understand that, I too have short term memory loss. Now what was the question? Geek9pm     New Bird Logo. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Rich Text/PDF won't open. Thursday, December 25, 2008 at 2:53 am Posted by Orange County CA (10 messages posted) Thanks for the tip. I have no idea how the folder "A" was created as restricted. I created a new folder named Shared Folder. Dragged "A" into it and all is fine. Now can you tell me how to un-restrict "A" so it can be dragged out of Shared Folder and used as I normally do? Keep it simple. Thanks. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Rich Text/PDF won't open. Thursday, December 25, 2008 at 10:11 am Posted by geek9pm (1030 messages posted) If you created a compressed folder you can extract all items form the folder. If you locked the folder with a password, you have to find the password. We need to have more information. PDF files are a special case, it is a format the requires a program from Adobe. If you used Adobe to lock the folder, we may not be able to help you here. Geek9pm     New Bird Logo. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Rich Text/PDF won't open. Thursday, December 25, 2008 at 10:49 am Posted by Orange County CA (10 messages posted) The folder is not compressed nor is it protected by a password. A few of the documents in it were openable and I dragged them out. I did nothing unusual in creating the file and have never bothered to learn about protecting a file with a password as I'm the only user. The file itself opens up immediately - its the documents that won't display. The unopenable documents were openable before they were dragged into this new folder. Keep it simple. Thanks. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Rich Text/PDF won't open. Thursday, December 25, 2008 at 11:06 am Posted by geek9pm (1030 messages posted) Maybe you are using the term 'file' to refer to a folder. A file contains pages or records. or data or code of some kind. A file can be a document. All documents all files. Not all files are documents. A folder contains files and can have sub-folders, which are just called folders. Now then, are you not able to place any inoperable document into another folder? Do you get an error message? Does it ask for a password? Can you do a right click on the document? Here is a snapshot of me doing a right click on my original logo: Can you send the document to a floppy? Geek9pm     New Bird Logo. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Rich Text/PDF won't open. Thursday, December 25, 2008 at 4:39 pm Posted by Orange County CA (10 messages posted) I'll stick to the correct terminology, thanks for the definitions. > >Now then, are you not able to place any inoperable document into another folder? Correct. It refuses to be dragged. >Do you get an error message? Does it ask for a password? No. >Can you do a right click on the document? A single right brings up a 3 option menu all options on the menu are ignored using a single left click.. A double left is totally ignored. >Can you send the document to a floppy? My machine does not support floppy. Keep it simple. Thanks. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Rich Text/PDF won't open. Thursday, December 25, 2008 at 5:55 pm Posted by geek9pm (1030 messages posted) This may be what you want: How to take ownership of a file or a folder in Windows XP If you must access a file or a folder that you do not have rights to, you must take ownership of that file or folder. When you do this, you replace the security permissions that were originally created for the file or folder. Geek9pm     New Bird Logo. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Rich Text/PDF won't open. Thursday, December 25, 2008 at 7:25 pm Posted by Orange County CA (10 messages posted) Thanks for all the help I really appreciate your time. I think I've sorted through the mess now and could not have done it without you, font> Keep it simple. Thanks. [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 XP Discussion Forum