Lately, i shipped a runtime solution to a client. After launching the program, the first page asks for the user name, company name and registration number which I provide with the cd-rom.

This client told me that when she wants to enter any information in those fields, a message told her that the fields are not modifiable.

Those fields are text fields. I tested the solution as if I was the client and it worked just fine. I asked her to send me back the solution. In the mean time, does someone have an idea?

Bikeman17

Probably the file is still Read Only (set by the CD).

The woman copied and pasted the solution's folder on her computer's hard disk. How can she change that? Did I make a mistake when I burned the cd?

Bikeman

Is it pc based.

If so, highlight the files and right click and choose properties. Uncheck read only.

If mac, CMD & I for info and uncheck read only.

If you zip or stuffit before burning to cd, when unzipped at the other end will not have this problem.

HTH

Not to harp on this, but...

This is a Windows bug! Any time you copy a file to a CD, and then download it onto a Windows machine, it will be read-only. This doesn't happen with a Mac.

Andy's solution of compressing the files gets around the problem -- the ".zip" file will be read-only, but who cares? It's the ".fp5" files that are important, and when you decompress them they'll be unaffected by the trip through CD-Land.

Now, back on my soapbox:

Microsoft has no problem with this, and according to the people I talked to, they have no plan to fix it. They don't even understand why this is a problem. They also don't believe that Apple has done them one better on this issue. And yet they have 95% of the market.

H.L. Mencken wrote "Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the masses." The success of many movies, political figures, and operating systems merely proves him right.

Dan:

Give it a rest already...if you want to *** and moan, try getting on your soapbox about the bugs in Filemaker!