How to remove ReadOnly from files in Windows 7?

Question

On our Android app we're passing strings resources via build script using the resValue, something like this:

android {
    compileSdkVersion 25
    buildToolsVersion "25.0.2"

    defaultConfig {
       resValue "string", "foo", "foo_value"
       resValue "string", "bar", "bar_value"
       ... etc

How to add translated version of those strings. To go on values-de, values-ch, values-sp, etc folders?

Solution

Type cmd in the Start Menu or in Run and to...

Remove read-only attribute from a file type:

ATTRIB -R "C:\YourFile.ext"

Remove read-only attributes from a folder type:

ATTRIB -R "C:\YourFolder" /D

Remove read-only attributes from a directory tree (and all the files within) type:

ATTRIB -R "C:\YourFolder" /S /D

Otherwise, it may be an ACL issue and being on Windows 7, you'll want to use ICACLS:

ICACLS "C:\YourFileOrFolder" /grant:r %USERNAME%:F

You might need to specify your computer's name:

ICACLS "C:\YourFileOrFolder" /grant:r %COMPUTERNAME%\%USERNAME%:F

And if you need recursion:

ICACLS "C:\YourFileOrFolder" /grant:r %COMPUTERNAME%\%USERNAME%:F /T

Comments

[Eyal]

What went wrong when you tried those things?

[Admin]

file still remains read only... the read only tab is still checked

[Moab]

possible duplicate of How to delete a file protected by Windows

[Blackbelt]

maybe this one helps?

[Budius]

@Blackbelt not really. We're trying to inject values via CI, so in reality the values are coming from a System.getenv(key) command. Maybe I'll check into just download a complete .xml and replace in the project.

[DavidPostill]

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