Folders become read-only and I can't get them changed back, any suggestions?
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The read-only setting on folders has nothing to do with the read-only status of the contents. It's used by Windows for its own peculiar purposes. Basically, it's none of our business.
Unable to remove Read-Only attribute from folder
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