Suddenly a 'Read Only' Directory

[Douglas Sanders]

I'm running an old accounting program, Microsoft/Great Plains 'Profit' circa
1998 on a Win2k OS.

Suddenly it tell me it will not run- "The directory C:\GPPROFIT\ is read
only. You can not run Profit from read-only directory." The directory is
not read only.

The only thing that changed was the latest updates from Microsoft. I loaded
the software on two other Win2k machines with the same results.

I loaded it on a Win98 machine and it works fine.


Any ideas on how to correct this?

Thanks

Doug Sanders

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

I'm running an old accounting program, Microsoft/Great Plains
'Profit' circa 1998 on a Win2k OS.

Suddenly it tell me it will not run- "The directory C:\GPPROFIT\ is
read only. You can not run Profit from read-only directory." The
directory is not read only.

What are the NTFS permissions on the folder?

 

[Douglas Sanders]

Everything looks right.

I went to 'My Computer', 'Manage', 'Shares' and confirmed everyone has full
access to all folders and drives.

Doug


"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

Everything looks right.

I went to 'My Computer', 'Manage', 'Shares' and confirmed everyone
has full access to all folders and drives.

That's the share permission - NTFS permissions are on the security tab. Are
you using NTFS as your disk format?

Doug


"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"

What are the NTFS permissions on the folder?

 

[Douglas Sanders]

No, the 'C' drive is Fat32.

Doug


"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"

Everything looks right.

I went to 'My Computer', 'Manage', 'Shares' and confirmed everyone
has full access to all folders and drives.

That's the share permission - NTFS permissions are on the security tab. Are
you using NTFS as your disk format?

Doug


"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"

Douglas Sanders wrote:
I'm running an old accounting program, Microsoft/Great Plains
'Profit' circa 1998 on a Win2k OS.

Suddenly it tell me it will not run- "The directory C:\GPPROFIT\ is
read only. You can not run Profit from read-only directory." The
directory is not read only.

What are the NTFS permissions on the folder?

The only thing that changed was the latest updates from Microsoft.
I loaded the software on two other Win2k machines with the same
results.

I loaded it on a Win98 machine and it works fine.


Any ideas on how to correct this?

Thanks

Doug Sanders

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

No, the 'C' drive is Fat32.

OK...last guess; check the properties of the folder in question. Is it
marked as read-only?

Doug


"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"

Everything looks right.

I went to 'My Computer', 'Manage', 'Shares' and confirmed everyone
has full access to all folders and drives.

That's the share permission - NTFS permissions are on the security
tab. Are you using NTFS as your disk format?

Doug


"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"
message Douglas Sanders wrote:
I'm running an old accounting program, Microsoft/Great Plains
'Profit' circa 1998 on a Win2k OS.

Suddenly it tell me it will not run- "The directory C:\GPPROFIT\
is read only. You can not run Profit from read-only directory."
The directory is not read only.

What are the NTFS permissions on the folder?

The only thing that changed was the latest updates from Microsoft.
I loaded the software on two other Win2k machines with the same
results.

I loaded it on a Win98 machine and it works fine.


Any ideas on how to correct this?

Thanks

Doug Sanders

 

[Douglas Sanders]

First, the folder was not 'read only'.

The correction was to remove 'Windows 200 Hotfix - KB840986'

These fixed the problem on 4 out of 4 machines.

Thanks

Doug


"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"

No, the 'C' drive is Fat32.

OK...last guess; check the properties of the folder in question. Is it
marked as read-only?

Doug


"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"

Douglas Sanders wrote:
Everything looks right.

I went to 'My Computer', 'Manage', 'Shares' and confirmed everyone
has full access to all folders and drives.

That's the share permission - NTFS permissions are on the security
tab. Are you using NTFS as your disk format?

Doug


"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"
message Douglas Sanders wrote:
I'm running an old accounting program, Microsoft/Great Plains
'Profit' circa 1998 on a Win2k OS.

Suddenly it tell me it will not run- "The directory C:\GPPROFIT\
is read only. You can not run Profit from read-only directory."
The directory is not read only.

What are the NTFS permissions on the folder?

The only thing that changed was the latest updates from Microsoft.
I loaded the software on two other Win2k machines with the same
results.

I loaded it on a Win98 machine and it works fine.


Any ideas on how to correct this?

Thanks

Doug Sanders

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

First, the folder was not 'read only'.

The correction was to remove 'Windows 200 Hotfix - KB840986'

These fixed the problem on 4 out of 4 machines.

Glad you found it - but you might want to move to another product that can
work properly with W2k.

Thanks

Doug


"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"

No, the 'C' drive is Fat32.

OK...last guess; check the properties of the folder in question. Is
it marked as read-only?

Doug


"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"
message Douglas Sanders wrote:
Everything looks right.

I went to 'My Computer', 'Manage', 'Shares' and confirmed everyone
has full access to all folders and drives.

That's the share permission - NTFS permissions are on the security
tab. Are you using NTFS as your disk format?

Doug


"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"
in message Douglas Sanders wrote:
I'm running an old accounting program, Microsoft/Great Plains
'Profit' circa 1998 on a Win2k OS.

Suddenly it tell me it will not run- "The directory
C:\GPPROFIT\ is read only. You can not run Profit from
read-only directory." The directory is not read only.

What are the NTFS permissions on the folder?

The only thing that changed was the latest updates from
Microsoft. I loaded the software on two other Win2k machines
with the same results.

I loaded it on a Win98 machine and it works fine.


Any ideas on how to correct this?

Thanks

Doug Sanders