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Re: Getting some system information via VBSCript

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| Well, I tried checking the r/o attribute in Vista:
|
| - One of my TMP-Subdirs was already marked as r/o. I could create a new 
txt
| file in it and write to it. The file was r/w, the subdir still r/o.
|
| - I changed the subdir attribute to r/w and back to r/o, confirmed
| changement for all files, and the txt file was now r/o also.
|
| This was reproduceable and just that what I've expected: Changing the 
subdir
| attribute invokes a dialogue and this could change the underlying files 
and
| subdirs.
|

   What you're describing has nothing to do with
permissions. Nor does it have anything to do with
the quirky fake r/o default setting on folders.

  Folders can be marked read-only. It doesn't mean
anything. It's nonsense. For whatever reason, it's the
default setting. Nor does it have anything to do with
desktop.ini files, as Deanna thought. (At least not on
XP. I assume it's the same on Vista/7.) One can add
a desktop.ini to a folder marked r/o or system in order
to customize the folder by doing things like using a
special icon. I do that by writing a desktop.ini like so
on XP:

[.ShellClassInfo]
IconFile=C:\WINDOWS\NewIconStorage\uni1.ico
IconIndex=0

  The desktop.ini won't work unless the folder has either
the system or r/o attribute. That particular behavior
is also arbitrary nonsense that MS has never explained,
as far as I know. But all of my folders are marked r/o.
Most do not have a desktop.ini file. R/o, by itself, means
nothing with folders.

   What you're talking about is something altogether
different. When you changed settings by hand
in the Properties window the dialogue asked if you
want to apply those settings to all subfolders and
files. That's an extra step. All that it demonstrates
is that it's possible to get Windows to mark an
entire folder of files as r/o, or to clear to r/o marker,
by fiddling with the Properties window.

  In other words, even when you specifically set a
folder r/o it has no affect on anything. It *just
so happens* that when you do it through the
Properties window you're presented the option to
also change settings on subfolders and files.

  So the morals of the story: 1) Ignore r/o on folders.
It's nonsense. (Unless you want to play with
desktop.ini files.) 2) Permissions shouldn't be confused
with file attributes. 

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Getting some system information via VBSCript vincent.belaiche@gmail.com (Vincent Belaïche) - 2013-07-10 12:16 +0200
  Re: Getting some system information via VBSCript "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2013-07-10 08:53 -0400
    Re: Getting some system information via VBSCript vincent.belaiche@gmail.com (Vincent Belaïche) - 2013-07-10 22:46 +0200
      Re: Getting some system information via VBSCript "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2013-07-10 19:06 -0400
        Re: Getting some system information via VBSCript "Theo Tress" <rbk@online.de> - 2013-08-14 15:21 +0200
          Re: Getting some system information via VBSCript "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2013-08-14 10:16 -0400
            Re: Getting some system information via VBSCript Deanna Earley <dee.earley@icode.co.uk> - 2013-08-14 16:41 +0100
              Re: Getting some system information via VBSCript "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2013-08-14 11:53 -0400
          Re: Getting some system information via VBSCript ralph <nt_consulting@yahoo.com> - 2013-08-14 11:23 -0500
  Re: Getting some system information via VBSCript Deanna Earley <dee.earley@icode.co.uk> - 2013-07-11 09:48 +0100
    Re: Getting some system information via VBSCript vincent.belaiche@gmail.com (Vincent Belaïche) - 2013-07-12 22:00 +0200

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