XYplorer Beta Club

Ok... It's kind of a miracle... but, who knows...?
I think this could be achieved via script. If such functionality could be done by script tricks, why not by the main app, due to the appeal of the wish?
-it'd be the only file manager able to do that, as far as I can tell...

SkyFrontier wrote:Ok... It's kind of a miracle... but, who knows...?
I think this could be achieved via script. If such functionality could be done by script tricks, why not by the main app, due to the appeal of the wish?

It's terribly old-school but xcopy (as opposed to XYcopy) *by default* resets the read-only attribute when copying from CD/DVD to HD. Also, it's very easy to reset the attributes afterwards, either through Windows Explorer's property panel (for trees) or through XYplorer's native functionality.

SkyFrontier wrote:-it'd be the only file manager able to do that, as far as I can tell...

From Directory Opus's help file:

Copying Files - Attributes

· Clear read-only flag when copying from CDs: Files stored on a CD-ROM have the Read-only attribute set by definition since one cannot write to the medium. This attribute is normally preserved by Opus when you copy the file. On a normal hard drive this can be annoying. Set this option to automatically clear the read-only attribute when a file is copied from a CD.

Edited to add: I'm guessing this might be something for XYcopy 2.0. The good news is that the roadmap lists this as coming after the current main item (Preview); the bad news is that ZIP support is to be added after Preview first (somewhere in september).