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To: PMS Witch who wrote (16884)	2/26/2001 3:07:15 PM
From: mr.mark	Respond to of 110653

pw okay, i think i get what you're telling me. i'll try it in a bit and get back to you. :) mark

To: PMS Witch who wrote (16884)	2/27/2001 3:35:27 PM
From: mr.mark	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110653

pw i tried your general instruction to copy the file and try opening it. when i had the file before me in explorer, i'd right click and choose 'copy', but no signs of it appeared. duh. i also tried sending the files to either floppy or jaz disk and i got shared access violation messages. [edit in: maybe i'm a bit unclear on your advice to copy the file when i have said that i can't open it... and given that selecting the copy command produces no results for me in explorer that i can see. usually, copy produces a second file with the word copy added to the filename.] so then i booted into safe mode and was trying ed's idea to open with a text editor there. while doing that i retried sending to jaz disk and one file successfully got sent and i then opened it from the jaz drive. but the other file is being a booger (sorry about the technical language). i am focusing on permissions, but for my money each file gives admin (me) full authority to do whatever. as for read/write... they were both checked hidden, with read being the only other option. and it mattered not what option i did or did not have checked. this is not a big deal, as i told ed, i am plinking along here and will eventually hit upon a viable solution, i know i will. thank you for your interest :) mark