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Configuring a new laptop.OS = WP ProI keep running into directories with Hidden "gray-arrow" checked.Is there some global way to kill this?		                                        ...Jim Thompson-- | James E.Thompson, CTO                            |    mens     || Analog Innovations, Inc.                         |     et      || Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems  |    manus    || Phoenix, Arizona  85048    Skype: Contacts Only  |             || Voice:(480)460-2350  Fax: Available upon request |  Brass Rat  || E-mail Icon at  |    1962     |             I love to cook with wine.     Sometimes I even put it in the food.

Joerg · Accepted Answer

What's WP? Did you mean XP?So far I've re-done one laptop with XP, on account of a croaked hard drive. Just plopped in the install disk, did the required kowtow to Redmond for the online blessing, and that was pretty much it.As for hidden files go to Windows Exploder, Tools -> Folder Options -> View -> Show hidden files and folders. Turn that on if desired (default is "Do not show").-- Regards, Joerg"gmail" domain blocked because of excessive spam.Use another domain or send PM.

Jim Thompson · Answer

Yep, XP, must not be fully awake yet ;-)They show, just the gray arrow... aaaargh!  I'm still asleep, what isgray-arrow checked is "read-only" :-(A royal nuisance when you're dealing with hundreds of PSpice devicelibrary files :-(		                                        ...Jim Thompson-- | James E.Thompson, CTO                            |    mens     || Analog Innovations, Inc.                         |     et      || Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems  |    manus    || Phoenix, Arizona  85048    Skype: Contacts Only  |             || Voice:(480)460-2350  Fax: Available upon request |  Brass Rat  || E-mail Icon at  |    1962     |                           With Half My Brain Tied Behind My Back              Still More Clever Than  Pants

John Devereux · Answer

You can right-click them all as a group (or the containing folder) thendeselect the read-only flag AFAIK-- John Devereux

Joerg · Answer

Time for a HUGE mug of coffee? Or cuophy, as New Yawkers would say.-- Regards, Joerg"gmail" domain blocked because of excessive spam.Use another domain or send PM.

langwadt · Answer

command line:  attrib /S /D -R *-Lasse

Jim Thompson · Answer

Indeed!  Don't know why I'm groggy this morning except, maybe, I wassleepy last night and went to bed at 9PM :-(		                                        ...Jim Thompson-- | James E.Thompson, CTO                            |    mens     || Analog Innovations, Inc.                         |     et      || Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems  |    manus    || Phoenix, Arizona  85048    Skype: Contacts Only  |             || Voice:(480)460-2350  Fax: Available upon request |  Brass Rat  || E-mail Icon at  |    1962     |                           With Half My Brain Tied Behind My Back              Still More Clever Than  Pants

Jim Thompson · Answer

I'm constantly editing libraries to suit my own needs.I uncheck the gray read-only, it asks, "Apply to all sub-folders", Ianswer yes.  It churns,  Gray check goes away.Return to this directory later, and it's rechecked :-(Annoying as hell.		                                        ...Jim Thompson-- | James E.Thompson, CTO                            |    mens     || Analog Innovations, Inc.                         |     et      || Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems  |    manus    || Phoenix, Arizona  85048    Skype: Contacts Only  |             || Voice:(480)460-2350  Fax: Available upon request |  Brass Rat  || E-mail Icon at  |    1962     |             I love to cook with wine.     Sometimes I even put it in the food.

Les Cargill · Answer

If I understand you, it means "some files hierarchically placed under this point in the filesystem are read-only, some are not."

If you uncheck, and then re-check the checkbox, it makes 'em all readonly. If you leave it unchecked, they are all read-write.

Think carefully whether or not you want library files to be read-write....

Do you use CVS, Subversion, or any other version control system? My experience is that hardware guys resist this sort of thing. Kudos if you don't - "undo" at the multi-file level is a good thing...

-- Les Cargill

Jim Thompson · Answer

[snip]Mine are device model (Spice) libraries, and I'm the only player inthe band ;-)Microshit ;-)Anyone tried v7 yet?		                                        ...Jim Thompson-- | James E.Thompson, CTO                            |    mens     || Analog Innovations, Inc.                         |     et      || Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems  |    manus    || Phoenix, Arizona  85048    Skype: Contacts Only  |             || Voice:(480)460-2350  Fax: Available upon request |  Brass Rat  || E-mail Icon at  |    1962     |                           With Half My Brain Tied Behind My Back              Still More Clever Than  Pants

Les Cargill · Answer

And I'm constantly advocating version control...It's a Konspiracy - some software you use is being toopolite and re-read-only-ing them for you. Might be worth aquestion to support...--Les Cargill

petrus bitbyter · Answer

"Les Cargill"  schreef in bericht news:hc22e5$mbs$The curse of a lot of - most windows based - software: Programmers that pretend to do the thinking for you. Makes me think that *they* did not learn to think for themselves and expect all the rest of humanity to suffer from the same disease. If some programmer wants to be "polite" I1. Want to know it.2. Want a way to disable it.Sigh. Think my wishes are blowing in the wind. :(petrus bitbyter

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