Padlock icon on thumbnail

[David Haberkorn]

I had no problem downloading images onto a CD-RW until a couple days ago when I got the message "Cannot copy -- access denied. Make sure the disc is not full or write-protected and that the file is not currently in use." The disc was empty, the file wasn't in use. Therefore, the disc must be write-protected. If it is, how do I change its status? Also, shortly afterward whenever I used the Photoshop 7 browser, a padlock icon appeared over each thumbnail and I can't open any of those images. How do I get rid of the padlock icon? I assume these problems are related, but am not sure. My OS is Windows 98 and the CD formatter is Adaptec Direct CD 4. Thanks in advance for any help you may provide.

[dave milbut]

perhaps you finalized the disk? maybe it's a bad one? have you rebooted since the problem started to see if it clears it? 98 was never the most stable os to begin with, start throwing heavy doses of multimedia like burning and read/write/rewriteing to a drive from an application, and it's likely to get con-foo-sed from time to time.

[YrbkMgr]

Also, shortly afterward whenever I used the Photoshop 7 browser, a padlock
icon appeared over each thumbnail and I can't open any of those images.
How do I get rid of the padlock icon?




Those files are either being read from the CD or were copied from the CD to the hard drive and are set to Read Only - a characteristic of being on CD-ROM.

If they are on your hard drive, right click on them in Windows Explorer and choose properties: Uncheck Read Only. If they aren't on your hard drive, you can move them there then do the same thing.

There's no real harm in having it there except that you won't be able to overwrite those files, unless you uncheck read only.

As far as the former message about access denied, make sure you aren't trying to save to the CD drive. Can't do that.

Peace,
Tony

[dennis johnson]

What Tony says would apply if David hadn't said he could not *open* the files. The fact of a file being read-only should not prevent the files from being opened.

Something else must be wrong.

While others have dumped on Adaptec in this forum before, I have a Win98 machine that I use for audio editing, and it uses Adaptec software to write to discs with no problems whatsoever. Any time I've burned myself a new coaster it was my fault, not Adaptec's.

Have you tried re-setting your Photoshop preferences, David?

[r_harvey]

I use ... Adaptec software to write to discs with no problems whatsoever




As do I, when writing a disc at one time. The packet writing feature (drag&drop files) in version 4 has caused problems alone, and with other applications when it is running in the background.

[YrbkMgr]

Ahhh... Dennis you're right. I didn't read it close enough. Perhaps DirctCD or whatever they're calling the packet writing software may not be loaded (systray). They should still open, but the padlock issue makes me think "Read Only".

[David Haberkorn]

Thanks to everyone for responding. Turns out the problem was with Adeptec DirectCD. I tried to download an Excel file and got the same access denied message I got with the images. I uninstalled Adaptec DirectCD, then re-installed it. Problem solved. Although the padlocks still appear, I am otherwise back to normal. As for the "Read Only" box, it was not checked.

Again, thanks to all for the responses.
David