I have same issue. Folders are marked as read-only and my CAD-software crashes everytime when it trying to save library elements into the folder. Regular projects saving are ok. So it's not just a sandbox issue.
Windows 11 folder keeps reverting back to read only
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I have tried CMD checks and fixes. Done a clean boot. Have installed take ownership plug-in. Changed controlled folder access which was set to off. I have replaced the folder with a newly created one and copied the files back into the new one and it has the same issue as the old folder. The folder that is affected is C:\Users\USER\Appdata\Roaming\Vortex\downloads.
I need this folder to not be read only as Vortex cannot function with the folder permissions as they are.
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2024-02-08T23:15:31+00:00 You keep saying that it is meaningless. We are trying to edit the files on a regular basis only for the edit to be rejected because the file is READ ONLY.
At least in Win10 there was a workaround to this damn bug. The latest version of Win11 will not accept ANY workarounds.
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Anonymous
2023-12-18T20:36:18+00:00 I agree, Win 10 was no problem, I'm wasting a lot of time just to save my files!
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Les Ferch 10,361 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator2023-11-22T13:54:47+00:00 It is a problem because it keeps me from autosaving files from CAD, which I could do before.
If you are referring to what is shown below, you're barking up the wrong tree. Your auto-save issue is caused by something else entirely. Read below for the explanation.
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If you look at other folders, you will see that they all have that same "indicator". It's perfectly normal and essentially meaningless and has always been that way. It will not cause any problem.
To be clear, that "indicator" does not mean what you think it means. The folder itself is not read-only. You can verify that at a command line with the attrib command.
It's actually an operational item rather than an indicator. It always shows the solid box indicating that one or more files in the folder may be set read only. So, it really isn't any kind of indicator at all. But if you check the box, it is a command to tell Explorer to make all files in the folder read-only (it will ask for confirmation). It can also be unchecked to make all files in the folder not read-only.
It's an example of incredibly bad interface design.
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Les Ferch 10,361 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
2023-06-04T13:55:20+00:00 Are you referring to this?:
If so, that's perfectly normal, meaningless, and has always been that way in Windows (at least since Windows 7). This will not cause any issues. If "Vortex cannot function" then, it's for a different reason.
More details here.