[G4] Documents cant be changed.

James Asherman jimash at optonline.net
Wed Mar 8 10:39:53 PST 2006


On Mar 8, 2006, at 1:07 PM, Hector I. Macedo wrote:

> I am using 10.4.5 andsuddenly my "Documents" folder has become  
> "Read Only", I have no idea how this happened, but now when I try  
> to modify a folder or a document I receive a warning :
>
> The item"xxxx" can not be moved because Documents cant be modified.  
> and it gives me a button to "Authenticate. and its a whole  
> ringamarole everytime I need to access any of the files on Documents.
>
> I have tried to change ownership but it does not give me  
> opportunityo change the "Read Only" feature since that its grayed out.
>
> What can I do to change that?
>
> Thanks
>
> Hector
>>
>

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