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gumdigger

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#71549 12-Nov-2010 10:26
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Hi there

as the title says, On my 640GB drive i have two partition media & OS, on the media drive everything is sorted in a folder. I would like to do something to prevent accidental deletes of that folder or files in it.

Whats the best way to do this?.

Thanks.

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Rollux
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  #403860 12-Nov-2010 12:51
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What OS? You can often lock a folder, but that also prevents items being added.
I use NTFS Undelete for when something important is accidentally deleted (like the final of Desperate Housewives Season X!)




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  #403863 12-Nov-2010 12:56
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I Have windows xp pro on my HTPC

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  #403874 12-Nov-2010 13:14
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You could flag all the files "read only", this won't stop them being deleted but will at least trigger an "are you sure" type prompt.



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  #404033 12-Nov-2010 20:09
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you can set up NTFS permissions to allow writes, but not modifies. If you are on vista/7 with this setup then you should get a UAC prompt if you want to delete the files.




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  #408970 24-Nov-2010 15:53
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mount the drive readonly.

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