Files are suddenly locked

This has to be the stupidous question of all time but I need help.  In Bridge5 suddenly almost my entire drive has been locked and I do not know how to unlock them.  It makes it really hard to write to the files.  Thanks for being kind.

I think you are correct on that.  I opened some of the folders and they wre
checked read only.  I tried to change them to not being read only and it
worked some of the time.  The folders sometimes stayed read only and the
files were ok to change.  It was pretty arduous as there are about 50
folders .   I will probably have to check the folders beforfe I try to
write anything to them.   Thanks so much for the help.  When people who know
what they are doing help us less fortunate, it is a blessing.  Here is one
of my photos from that drive.  Jerome

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