Sync from read-only media

[JC]

Greetings!

I've got a work around to this problem below, but I suspect there's a better way to do so (why I'm here!)

Goal:
Syncing files between laptop at school and desktop at home so I can leave the lap at school and only carry a DVD-RW back and forth. Ideally I'd use VV to sync a folder (source) to the DVD (target) on the laptop, take the DVD home, use the DVD as the source and a folder on the desktop computer as the target.

Problem:
Works fine, except, anything on a DVD or CD is a read-only entity while it's on that media, so VV faithfully carries that attribute along when syncing the DVD to the desktop computer- i.e., all my files on the desktop are read-only so I can't modify them without 'save-as' and double-up my files and space.

Non-elegant solution:
My work-around is to save the DVD contents to my hard drive first, and sync from there to my target. Reverse and repeat on the other computer. Slow and cumbersome. Like I said, I bet there's a better way, I just don't know it.

Thanks!
JC

[TGRMN Software]

VV copies all the file attributes, does not currently have an option not to do that. I think we should add that to our to-do list!

In the meantime I would like to suggest another workaround, maybe easier. Use the Attrib command. See http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/attrib.mspx?mfr=true for more info on this command.

Attrib can change/add/aremove file attributes for files. You could put this in a batch file and run it at the end of your VV job (see profile settings to run a script after execution)

Attrib -r c:\yourpath
is what you are looking for I think, it removes the read-only flag.
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[JC]

I tried using the 'attrib -r' in various configs, both as a VV script/batch and as a stand-alone command, but that was a no-go (not that computer savvy).

While monkey-ing around, I rediscovered that right-clicking the target folder brings up a menu with 'properties' as a selection option. Doing that and clicking the 'general' tab gives me the option to de-select the read only attribute (what you suggested in the first place- this is just a more GUI approach for JC-scriptless here!)

Thanks!
JC