Harry

Thanks for passing this along and to Rick for digging up the info.

It seems that more and more guidance is not to use flash drives and MSFT, 
in response, is making their practical use for average users more and more 
complicated.
The things we like about flash drives (portability, easy to carry and 
store away) is also their vulnerability ((easy to loose, easy to steal).



On Wed, 5 May 2021, Harry Brown wrote:

> 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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