Upgraded from XP and the My Documents (Now just Documents) folder has been marked as Read Only. I right click and try to take off the attribute for the folder and all sub-folders. Vista security kicks in and I allow the change to go forward and Vista spins through all the files and folders taking off the Read Only attibute. Seems to end OK. Yet when I try to save something to Documents it tells me it is read only. Check any file or folder and sure enough still marked as read only. How can I really change this?

Check if you encrypted My Documents folder in XP, if you did and upgraded, so you'll get such procedure, if not, so it's might due to a malfunction or bug in your copy of beta Vista. Good luck

Hello there, sorry to intrude like this but i was searching the forum and found your mail. Thing is, im havin the exact same problem except all of my folders are read only on an extrernal drive NTFS, and the same thing happens to me when i change them. If you found the solution id be very grateful if you could share it. Ive tried everything, gone into permissions security, encryption and still cant fix it. Please help. S Hawkins. Again sorry for the intrusion and thanks.

I don't see any recent postings but I am having the same problem and the files were not encrypted. Since this version of Vista came installed on my new Gateway I don't think it is a beta version.