Thread: Ebook editor silently overwrites read-only ebook files
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Old 12-21-2022, 03:41 PM   #7
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Originally Posted by JSWolf View Post
It's the fault of Linux for being buggered. Windows would not allow me to overwrite if the file was read-only.
Not true. A program can change the write access. It's not happening by accident. I've written programs for Windows to change file permissions.
Only pressed CDs, DVDs, ROMs and similar are immutably Read Only.
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