Unable to edit file

Jeremy H. Griffith jeremy at omsys.com
Sat Jul 17 01:04:04 PDT 2010


On Fri, 16 Jul 2010 14:45:00 -0700, Kimberly Williams <kimberlyw_762 at hotmail.com> wrote:

>I did something to one of the files in my book and I don't know how to fix it. I am using v8.0p77 on Windows XP. 
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>I've been having issues with Frame slowing way down if I try to access the Web while I have my book files open. Some times FM just bombs out and, after emptying caches, I have to start over and re-open the autosave/recovery files.
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>I'm thinking that I might have opened the file as read-only as I was getting things set up after a crash. I must accidentally saved it that way because I cannot do anything  to this particular file now. I was hoping that I could just save it again but I found I couldn't even do that. I never saved it as a .MIF file so I can't try that avenue either.
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>Is there a way to make this file usable so that I can then save it as a .FM file or must I start from scratch and re-create it?

You can toggle read-only mode on or off with:
  Esc F l k

That's Escape, Shift-F, lower-case L, lower-case K.

HTH!

-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
  <jeremy at omsys.com>  http://www.omsys.com/



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