I hunted in here for a previous discussion of this problem, and AFAIK the last discussion was in fall of 2013. Under Win10... I went up to the root directory "My Music" cleared the read-only flag, applied it and saw the contents (folders and files) go whizzing by. NTL I still have files that I can…

I've analyzed the file and noticed that some of the RIFF chunks don't report valid sizes. This means that the file is malformed. I've also checked the file with foobar2000's integrity checker which reports Warning: Malformed or truncated chunk found at 1046548524 bytes, claimed length 12544 bytes,…

Can you give some details on the type of files? Are common properties like length, bitrate, ... of these files displayed in Mp3tag's file list?

I use a batch file to reset the ownership and attributes. {Root of Directory}: CD {path to directory} attrib -r -s -a *.mp3 /s {NOTE: I convert all to MP3. You can change the extension, or add multiple lines for multiple extensions} attrib -r -s -a -h /s /d takeown /r /d y /f {path} icacls * /…

May I ask why you set the attributes in 2 steps? Are you sure that the permission "Everyone Fullcontrol" is needed? (If you are the only person accessing this PC this is not a problem. Otherwise you will expose your files to "Everyone").

I think the first command applies specifically to the files, while the second applies to directories/folders. I'm not an expert, and I copied the batch file from someone else. And, yes, I am the only one who accesses these files. You can always change ownership to the computer owner or logged in us…

This problem is file type agnostic - .wav, mp3... whatever. I've compared files I know I can alter with MP3tag with files I can't change. If there's a difference, I can't see it. The ownership matches, the permissions match, so something's still not right. There's one misleading point in this mess…

Have you checked the MP3s for integrity? (See here: [image] How to check files for errors? Howto It’s required and often helps to reduce support cycles to check files for errors before filing a bug report. Symptoms of erroneous files are often missing or wr…

I changed ownership to Everyone (via the Properties windows). No change. This makes no sense to me, period.

[image] RBEmerson: That is, click the little box to disable Read Only, and it looks as though that's happened. Go back to the folder properties, and it's back to being marked "Read Only". That is the way how the "inheritance" thing works in Windows. Every folder get his access rights from the…

[image] RBEmerson: This problem is file type agnostic - .wav, mp3... whatever. I've compared files I know I can alter with MP3tag with files I can't change. If there's a difference, I can't see it. The ownership matches, the permissions match, so something's still not right. This seems to in…

Sigh... I did a side by side comparison of files in the same folder (I re-ripped the content), which, I think, rules out in heritance (which is from D:\ or the parent isn't the guilty party, ditto for d:\My Music\Bach\Brandenburg Concertos. The problem is at the file level because the old files are …

Cannot be opened for writing - Yet again

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ohrenkino February 1, 2022, 3:13pm 8

Have you checked the MP3s for integrity?
(See here:

If you load the WAV files again into an audio editor and save them again - does this help?