Do you have write access rigth to the folder with files and to the files itself?

>when i am trying to attach database files it happens an error
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>Database Northwind can not be upgraded because is it read only or has read only files
>make database or files writeable and rerun recovery
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>i checke teh properties of the files and those are writeable ..i am the administrator of the Database
>what is wrong