On 18 Oct 2002, at 16:04, Dencer Brenda wrote:
> Hi, Folks. I have an Access DB that I copied in Roxio to a CD-R disk.
> When I try to open the DB, I get the message that it is 'read only' and I
> can't make changes or update object definitions in the dB.
>
> I right clicked on the DB name and went into properties to uncheck the
> read only attribute, but no luck.
>
> Does anyone have a resolution to this problem before I shoot either
> the computer or myself?
>
> TIA,
> Brenda Dencer
I think what you want will work (although I sure wouldn't recommend it!)
with CD-RW. On CD-R, your only way to update a file is to rewrite the whole
file to a new region on the disk, and that's not how Access updates a
database.
David Gillett
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