I have been coping music files to a flash drive so I can transfer them to my car's harddrive.  Once I downloaded Itunes 11, everything shows as protected so it does not transfer.   Is there a way aroung this?

Hello:
I have been periodically copying files to a flash drive to put in my car's hard drive.  This was working fine until I downloaded and installed Itunes 11.  When I copy the files,
the songs show in the flash window as "protected" and then do not transfer to my car's harddrive.  Is there a new procedure for this?  Even songs that I copy to Itunes via a cd also show as protected.  

Without a hardware lock I dont think there is a way to lock the drive cross-platform. You can lock all the files on the drive, which will prevent them from being modified, but that's only a superficial lock, as the "lock" checkbox can be edited in both windows and OS X.

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