>>>>I use foxpro/lan 2.0 This morning I set exclusive off and then opened a table on the server to make a change to it. It wouldn't let me make the change and said the file was read only! I don't know what happened to make it read only or how to undo whatever happened! It seems that all the tables are now read only. Can anybody help me out? Please!!
>>>Rhea,
>>>If you don't open it exclusive than it's read only for modification.
>>>Cetin
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>>Cetin,
>>If I don't set exclusive off it won't let me open the file. I get the file access denied message. I need to know how to change the file attribute back to read and write instead of read only. Any ideas?
>OK Rhea,
>Step by step :
>-Some operations need exclusive open of files (Modify structure, pack etc). If you want to do one of these then you should open it exclusive otherwise readonly would return.
>- "Access denied" means somebody else opened it and using. In fact nobody might be using it physically for the moment but has shut down their terminals after opening the tables (ie: on a Novell netware, go to rconsole and check connections and what they already opened, or NT server manager).
>-File attributes or your access rights to server might be readonly too. Check them also.
>Cetin
Cetin,
Thanks for your quick response. I went to our network administer with the problem and as we were checking things out he discovered that the backup tape had run out in the directory of the inventory system. That's why the files were read only! What a relief for me as I couldn't figure out what I might have done to create the problem in the first place. So all is well again now that the backup has a new tape! Thanks again for your help.
Rhea