Please help...I am SO frustrated!!! I have backed files up onto CDR-W's (I used the XP function to do this), thinking that I could delete/change them as necessary. The problem is, the files/folders, for some reason, are read-only and I can't do anything with them without wiping out the entire disk and starting over. That kind of defeats the purpose! Someone told me to use a a free tool called 'Read-Only', but I've tried and still they remain read-only. First of all, how could I have avoided this 'read-only' problem in the first place...and second of all, any way to remove the read-only after the fact?:confused: :(

they are read only becasue the CDrw session is not closed. and dont waste your time trying to change them from read only on the disc. extract the files to our hard drive and use read only there. if it doesnt work your only option is to go thru ALL the files manually changing each files attribute.