irvingm Posted April 17, 2002 Share Posted April 17, 2002 I have designed a database on mac. I move this to PC, develop it on PC, burn a disc. When the user copies the solution to his PC, he has to change the properties ie deselect "read only". This is a pest for unskilled users. Any suggestions? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven H. Blackwell Posted April 17, 2002 Share Posted April 17, 2002 Create a compressed, self-extracting archive of the files. Burn that archive to the CD. When the suer double clicks it, the user is prompted to save the extracted archive with the files to a hard drive. That addressed the read only property. HTH Old Advance Man Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danjacoby Posted April 19, 2002 Share Posted April 19, 2002 BTW, this isn't a Filemaker problem; it's a Windows problem. Any time you burn a CD and then download the files to a Windows machine, the files download as Read-Only. My guess is that this won't change any time soon, as the folks I talked to at Microsoft don't seem to think this is a problem. Meanwhile, OAM's solution, in which the compressed file becomes Read-Only, but the files compressed within it are preserved, is the only workable answer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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