Burnt Xcel workbooks to cd. excel will now not allow me to access original
copies. I keep getting a message that says the workbooks may be encrypted or
read only whrn they have not been modified in this way. any suggestions

tangles

First of all.......you should never save to or open from removable media
directly. Just looking for file corruption.

Save to HDD then copy to the CD. Same when opening. Copy to HDD then open.

The read only bit.......

All depends upon how the files get "burned" to the CD.

With regular Windows burning, they will always be read-only.

Copy the file(s) back to HDD then take off the RO attribute.

If you were to use a packet writing application like Nero InCD, files would
not be read only and individual files could be erased or written to on the CD
just like a big floppy disk.

See this google search thread

http://snipurl.com/6llq

Note the link to Alex Nicholl's site.

Also http://www.webtree.ca/windowsxp/cdr_info.htm


Gord Dibben Excel MVP

On Sun, 17 Apr 2005 02:27:01 -0700, "tangles"
wrote:

Burnt Xcel workbooks to cd. excel will now not allow me to access original
copies. I keep getting a message that says the workbooks may be encrypted or
read only whrn they have not been modified in this way. any suggestions

"Gord Dibben" <gorddibbATshawDOTca wrote in message
...

Note the link to Alex Nicholl's site.

Also http://www.webtree.ca/windowsxp/cdr_info.htm

Great link Gord.

Thanks Bob

Gord

On Sun, 17 Apr 2005 22:47:01 +0100, "Bob Phillips"
wrote:


"Gord Dibben" <gorddibbATshawDOTca wrote in message
.. .

Note the link to Alex Nicholl's site.

Also http://www.webtree.ca/windowsxp/cdr_info.htm

Great link Gord.