{"id":8607,"date":"2021-11-29T03:02:58","date_gmt":"2021-11-29T03:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lgildv5i97.onrocket.site\/answers\/?post_type=question&#038;p=8607"},"modified":"2021-11-29T03:25:10","modified_gmt":"2021-11-29T03:25:10","slug":"prevent-accidential-deletion-of-read-only-files-on-usb-drive","status":"publish","type":"question","link":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/windows-7\/prevent-accidential-deletion-of-readonly-files-on-usb-drive\/12367.html","title":{"rendered":"Prevent Accidential Deletion Of Read-Only Files On USB Drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello, I&#8217;m trying to set a folder or files on my fat32 flash drive to be read only to avoid accidental deletion by the user on other computers. I can set the files and folder to read only, however, I am still able to delete and modify the files even though it is supposedly read only. Why would this be? This is happening to files set to read only on the flash drive as well as my system hard drive.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"iawp_total_views":20},"question-category":[42],"question_tags":[],"class_list":["post-8607","question","type-question","status-publish","hentry","question-category-windows-7"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question\/8607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/question"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"question-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question-category?post=8607"},{"taxonomy":"question_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question_tags?post=8607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}