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Tom's Hardware > Forum > Windows Vista > Vista General Discussion > Office 2007 on Vista... "read-only" problem

Office 2007 on Vista... "read-only" problem

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Just upgraded to Vista & Office 2007. Everytime I try and open a document (note they are all word 2000 .doc files), it opens and says:

[read-only] [compatibility mode]

Why is this? I really don't want to have to open and resave all my documents; plus, I shouldn't have to... as before Vista, I installed Office 2007 on my Windows XP machine and opened all the same documents with no "read-only" problem.

Anyone know why this is occuring and how to fix it?

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Check your file perms and make sure you did not unintentionally set them to Read Only.

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File permissions are as they should be

Reply to dannyaa
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wait, the file is not read only, but its folder is... but... ok... the problem gets a bit more complex:

I had 3 HDDs from Windows XP that I had storage on (docs, pics, video, etc.). I just formatted my main HDD clean and put Vista on. Well, apparently every folder on the other drives is now read only... and when I check to change it, I say apply, it asks for permission, I grant, and it says applying to all folders, ok. But nothing changes, and when I go back to properties, it is read only again!!!

What's going on?

Reply to dannyaa

Its normal for a hd with data from an older OS to automatically be set to RO when Vista first sees it because it has no User SID to associate the file properties to. If you go to wherever you want to associate to your new Vista User ID (problably the whole hd if it is a home PC) and go into folder permissions, you should be able to change ownership to your Vista ID for the folder and all subfolders.

Reply to pkellmey

Hello,

We solved this read-only problem with WebDAV in Vista SP1, IE8 and Office 2007 by installing hotfix for KB942392 (http://support.microsoft.com/KB/942392). This hotfix, probably, will be included in Vista SP2.

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