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I can answer most MS Access design questions. I also welcome questions on database design and implementation and VBA programming questions. I also have expierence in application design for all the Office components (Excel, Outlook, etc).

 
   

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Using MS Access - Saving Access data


Expert: Rob Henderson - 2/16/2005

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I hope I have a simple question for you. I have Windows XP. I am pretty knowledgable about computers but have little knowledge of Access, Excel, Word. My question. I save an Access file to a CD-RW disc. When I open the file up from the disc, it says it is Read Only. Why can't I  change the info and save it again writing over that file? Thanks for any help.

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Hi

Yeah - I've come across this before. You're writing to a read write disc and Access is treating the volume as read only.

This, I believe, is down to Access having only two read states = read only and write.

The workaround is to copy your db to the local drive make your changes then rewrite onto disc.

HTH

rob

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