File as Read Only

Hello,
When I am opening any file (DTR -> Edit ->) in NWDS, it' gets opened as Read only. I am unable to make any changes in it. Can anyone help?
Regards,
Shaun

Hi Pavan,
Yes. I have done this.
We download code from Development server to our local systems. NOw we have observed that on any system if we download the code, files becomes read-only. What can be the problem? It's definetly not a local system problem.
Regards,
Shaun

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