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&gt;&gt;Is there a way in MFC/Win32 to take off the &quot;read-only&quot; status <br />
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// get file attributes<br />
DWORD dwAttr = GetFileAttributes ( pszFileName);<br />
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// remove the readonly flag<br />
dwAttr |= ~FILE_ATTRIBUTE_READONLY;<br />
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// set attributes<br />
SetFileAttributes ( pszFileName, dwAttr);
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>>Is there a way in MFC/Win32 to take off the "read-only" status

// get file attributes
DWORD dwAttr = GetFileAttributes ( pszFileName);

// remove the readonly flag
dwAttr |= ~FILE_ATTRIBUTE_READONLY;

// set attributes
SetFileAttributes ( pszFileName, dwAttr);

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I tried this code exactly, but it didn't work.. &nbsp;it ended up setting all the attributes because after the 2nd line, dwAttr was 0xffffffff (whereas, before, it was 0x00000021). &nbsp;Any ideas?<br />
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I tried this code exactly, but it didn't work..  it ended up setting all the attributes because after the 2nd line, dwAttr was 0xffffffff (whereas, before, it was 0x00000021).  Any ideas?



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Aahh.. &nbsp;makes sense.<br />
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Thanks!
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I have a program that is going to be using files that are going to be copied off CD. &nbsp;I need to be able to read/write to these files. &nbsp;Is there a way in MFC/Win32 to take off the &quot;read-only&quot; status of the files that are copied from the CD, so I can easily open them in CFile::modeReadWrite mode?<br />
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I have a program that is going to be using files that are going to be copied off CD.  I need to be able to read/write to these files.  Is there a way in MFC/Win32 to take off the "read-only" status of the files that are copied from the CD, so I can easily open them in CFile::modeReadWrite mode?



changing read-only status of files copied from a CD

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