Windows made every folder read only.

[aptmusic9]

For some reason, everything on my system are read only. If I change a file, it goes back to read only (8+ drives, custom built x79 i7 3930k system). If I try to save a file to a folder, it wont let me save it and tells me I cant save to the directory. I've restarted several times.

Here's some background info on likely causes. I recently put a huge folder on onedrive (100+ gb). Onedrive synced with my lowly 256gb SSD and I recieved a warning that C: is full. I attempted to delete the file and disable one drive. I think I may have triggered a glitch with windows, sinve yesterday I saw a windows 10 system dialog box randomly appear asking me to re-enter my password. Being skeptical and security concious user, I just closed the box and felt cyncial about it. And at some point today everything has become read-only. Restarting hasnt helped.

 

[Colif]

All win 10 folders are always read only, the only reason you never noticed is you had permission to use them. I have never seen it ask for password before except when I was using a local account that isn't an admin, then it asks on everything.

have you got a home group set up? if you don't,. make one and see if it fixes the problem - when win 10 first came out I had a similar problem to what you have and making a home group fixed it. Before that, onedrive seemed to have more power on my system than I did and I couldn't save anything into library folders as they were synced to Onedrive.

One drives default save location as C drive sux when you have a large file on it and it decides it needs a copy of it on your hard drive, on top of the original that is there. I uploaded 35gb of music last year before i realised it would duplicate it on C. I now have it on another hard drive completely