Files are write protected....

[anken]

My problem:
I have data files on CD which I have burned with Nero.
When I try to add to an open file, I get the message that the files are "write protected" and I can't add anything to it. If I try to unclick the write protect, it goes right back to it.

The same is happening with the Picture CD when trying to add pictures to an album.
It used to work in the past but I don't remember if I have done it since I changed from Win98 to WinXP Home.
I have also tried to do it with the build in windows backup but with the same results.
Does anybody have any ideas why this is happening?????

[John Prophet]

well if the cd is "closed" you aint gonna write anything to it, lol.

The only way you can just "drag and drop" stuff to it, or use the "send to" command..is if you are running Nero's "InCD" function...that is the thing where it makes the cd like a floppy to where you can just drag stuff to it or send stuff to it.

But basically, unless you are using "InCD"..it will always tell you its write protected.

And just some advice....dont store anything really VITAL using 'InCD" (or adaptecs "direct CD")...because they seem to be a little sketchy...like somethimes they work, somethimes they dont.....I have known more than one person who was using them for backup and all of a suddent the disk becomes unreadable....ouch.

[Dj-Icer]

You missed that anken

[eagle1]

Unless you copied the stuff to the cd using a Direct-CD type method, you CANNOT edit the stuff on the CD. Hence the file protection error.


Edit: Damn JP. I have seen that these are your peak hours!!!

[John Prophet]

lol.....I am in some bad sleep habits right now....hopefully this coming year I will shift things BACK several hrs, lol.

[eagle1]

LOL!
What time is it where you are anyway?

[John Prophet]

1145pm right now. I need to get more into the, say 10pm to 6am sleep zone. Right now its more like sleep in till 12-1pm! sad sad, lol

[anken]

Eagle1,
this is probably a silly question but what do you mean by using the
Direct-CD type method?

John Prophet, thank you for your advice.
How do you guys recommend burning to the CD where it can be edited later ?
I have Nero 5.5 OEM and then of course the windows backup.

[John Prophet]

Direct CD is adaptecs version of Nero's "InCD"....its "packet writing" or I think they call it "udf".

anyway what that is, is when you take a cd and you actually "format" it, just like a floppy disk...you actually are putting a file system on the cd....then it shows up as a drive in your "my computer" and you can just "drag and drop" or send files to it, or use windows backup to backup to it....like Isaid though, Im a little iffy on using it for backup...especially with windows backup cuz of the whole "differential/incremental" thing...I had issues when I tried it...the files would be there one day, they next day they wouldnt.

I was under the impression that if a file was sent to a cd with the "InCD" method that you COULD edit it and change it etc.

[eagle1]

1145pm right now. I need to get more into the, say 10pm to 6am sleep zone. Right now its more like sleep in till 12-1pm! sad sad, lol

lol

Anken, Direct CD is a program made by Adaptec (now Roxio I think) that it is almost the same as Nero's InCD.!

I don't normally record files that I will edit later on CDs just because I don't trust these programs that say you can do that. (I have damaged - just like JP story - a few cds trying to do this.).
What I usually do is that I give the files I edit different numbers and don't close the CD session so if I'm working on a script called ecc then the edited one I save it to cd as ecc_2 and so on and so on.

I Know it's not what you want to do but that's just my "safe" way of doing things.

I'm sure there's a good program that allows you to do this but if there exists one, I don't use it!

I have heard great things about Nero's one though. Don't know why it's not working well for you!

BTW, are you using CD-rs or CDRWs?