Hi Harry,

Thanks for sharing. There is also a program called diskpart.exe that will do the same thing using command lines. A technology specialist from Perkins Library sent me an article which describes both methods step by step. I sent out some NLS cartridges to my alumni association members and one of them blew away the files by accident. He sent the blank cartridge back to me and I copied all 8 days of material back onto it. Then I set it to read only so it couldn't be erased again. I will forward the instructions in a separate message. Hope they will help.

Diane
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Subject: [VICUG-L] fixing the problem of the USB thumb drive files or folders not being copied on to a windows 10 computer

Hi all,

This is from my computer guy, Rick, who searched, and found this tip!

"Solution 6 – Enable sharing for your USB flash drive If you can’t copy files to USB drive due to Write Protected message, the problem might be your sharing settings. To fix this problem, you need to enable sharing by doing the following:
step 1. Connect your USB flash drive to your PC.
step 2. Go to This PC.

step 3. locate your flash drive.

step 4. right-click it

step 5.  choose Properties.
step 6. When the Properties window opens, go to the Sharing tab.

step 7. Now click the Advanced Sharing button.
step 8. then the USB write protection turn off step 9. Check the Share this folder box.

step 10. then click on the Permissions button.
step 11. Check Full Control in the Allow column.

step 12. click Apply.

step 13. then click  OK to save changes.
After saving the changes, check if the problem is resolved. Several users reported that this solution worked for them, so feel free to try it out.

Harry


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