Windows 7 make public folder read only

Resources for IT Professionals. Sign in. United States English. Ask a question. Quick access. Search related threads. Remove From My Forums. Answered by:. First, we following the steps to delete the user's permissions in the public folder. It should be noted that this command line will delete all permissions of specific users in the public folder. The following screenshot is my test in the lab environment, first of all to delete the user's permissions on PublicFolder4, then adding the specified users ReadItems permission on PublicFolder4.

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Make sure UAC is on. All above are based on my experience, welcome to advice if you have better method. Improve this answer. Sam Sam 1, 1 1 gold badge 11 11 silver badges 29 29 bronze badges. What if we don't have administrator rights? Add a comment. A further suggestion, if you'd like to quickly change multiple files to read only. Norr Norr 1 1 silver badge 6 6 bronze badges. This is helpful, but it only affects existing files.

The OP wants to have the read-only status apply to new files also. However, sometimes I accidentally hit "Save" and overwrite my file — Steven Vascellaro How to make files within a folder read only accessible You can use ICACLS and explicitly deny the write attributes permission to all the files within a specific folder and prevent yourself or any security group from overwriting or modifying these files but still allow read access to open them.

An explicit deny ACE is added for the stated permissions and the same permissions in any explicit grant are removed. WA - write attributes inheritance rights may precede either form and are applied only to directories: OI - object inherit. Will this need to be re-run any time I save a new version to the folder? I want to restrict the option of overwriting existing files, but I want to be able to save new files to the folder.

Essentially, I want the files to become "read only" once they have been created. In hindsight, I think this may have been more appropriate as separate question This would affect all current and future files and never require re-running the script to apply the ACE to individual files.

StevenVascellaro You're probably correct this should have been a separate question. The original question doesn't explicitly state that the OP wanted to be able to add files to his folder. In fact, his opening statement is "I want to prevent myself writing into some files into folder. McDonald's Another way to improve your answer would be to have a script that periodically modified all existing files to add the Deny Delete ACE. Romeo Ninov Romeo Ninov 2, 3 3 gold badges 14 14 silver badges 18 18 bronze badges.

I am sorry, but you try to hide from self the things. Build strong discipline when you manipulate files! Why to bother if OS can do it for me? No OS can safe from human stupidity — Romeo Ninov. This only applies to currently saved files.