How can I make a file "read only"?
Carl,
The only way you can do that is through standard Windows facilities. But that means that anyone else can make the file changeable and you have no control over what happens when you pass the file to others.
A long time ago, I was one of a group of users who requested a facility to make files read only or to lock an nwc file against further change (particularly for distribution on the www). I don't know if the idea was ever considered but if it was, nothing came of it.
I would still wish for some sort of facility like that though.
I suggest just printing the file to PDF and distributing that.
PDFs can be altered, but not so easily, and I suspect it would be even less easy to alter notation in a PDF.
d
What I want is not to alter files accidentally myself. The only thing I can think of is to rename a file every time `I open it.
If you check 'Open as read only' when you open the file, clicking (http://www.noteworthysoftware.com/nwc2/help/img/save.gif) (http://www.noteworthysoftware.com/nwc2/help/MNU_FILESAVE.htm) will prompt you before overwriting the file.
This is automatic for files opened via 'Open Sa
mple...'
Unfortunately, there is no way to open files from '
History...' as 'Open as read only'.
Carl:
Am I missing something?
Why not just change the file properties to "Read Only".
Browse to the file in Windows Explorer - right click - select Properties then Read Only.
If you change the file and attempt to save it you will get a warning.
In fact you can select a complete folder or multiple files with Shift or Ctrl and follow the same procedure to "batch" all selected files as "Read Only"
Barry Graham
Melbourne, Australia
Thank you. Barry.
That is what I needed to know.
Which is exactly what this means
But I didn't realise that you didn't know how to do that - so, sorry for that - I should have explained further. I assumed that you meant to completely stop other people from changing your file
Hi Carl,
Another suggestion ...
If you aren't intending to modify the file, then why not just open it in the Viewer? No danger then of getting a 'file modified' prompt.
... (In Composer, when simply viewing "File > Info" to read about the music and author, I sometimes forget and click "OK" instead of "Cancel").
... Or do you also need to see some of the Composer's notation elements that aren't shown in the Viewer?
Joe
Me too.
Long ago it took some time to grasp why NWC kept saying "the file has changed".
Hi Joe,
I simply hadn't thought of using the viewer. I publish several hundred compositions by more than 40 composers, and every time I print a piece, there has been the danger of an error occurring. Now that problem is solved.