Read Only Popup
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Is there any way to disable the Read-Only dialog that pops up when you open a file that is read only? This is irritating and just a wasted step...
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Not that i know of.
Having said that, i think its a windows thing, so there might be an option hidden away some where to turn it off.
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Thanks, I figured that there isn't a way to shut if off.
However, I think it would have to be a SU activated dialog since windows would only care that the file was read only when it tried to write to it, and that would be a different dialog altogether.
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@dik harrison said:
Thanks, I figured that there isn't a way to shut if off.
However, I think it would have to be a SU activated dialog since windows would only care that the file was read only when it tried to write to it, and that would be a different dialog altogether.
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This permission is set at source. Can you open the file?
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I only run into this when I try opening files posted here. Files on my machine and network don't have the read-only attribute set.
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This is because files opened from the forum and other internet sites get saved to a temporary web folder deep in the insides of the windows folder structure. So they don't want you to be able to open a file from here, edit it for hours upon hours, save it and close it forgetting that it is not saved in a normal location, then close the file. Then close your internet explorer and if it is set to delete all temporary files upon exiting, your file is deleted.
So that is why it is there. Perhaps there is a way to keep your internet explorer from automatically setting it to read only upon temporary download?
Chris
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Chris,
I understand all that, that is not the issue. I could just download the file and then open it, which is what I do if I think I'm going to want to keep the file. In fact, I have my browsers download to a folder of my own choosing, not the temp folder under my profile. My issue is having to close that worthless dialog that opens. The scenario is usually that I'm reading this forum on one monitor and want to open an attached SU file on the other monitor to look at what the problem, example, etc. is. I click on the attachment and elect to open it with SU. I continue to read while waiting for the file to download and SU to open. After a while, I realize that SU has not opened because it is still waiting for me to close that dialog. SU already tells me that the file is read-only in the title bar of the SU window, why require me to verify that the file is read-only before it will open the file?
I realize that this trivial, but it is one of those trivial non-user-friendly nuisances that bug me.
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