Hello Community, Have a problem with editing mp3 tags. hope you can help Due to space restrictions I keep my Music library on an external USB hard drive (Transcend). I can do everything with my music while it's on the external hard drive (listen, change names) except edit MP3 tags. I can't edit …

See here how to deal with "file cannot be opened for writing": [image] File... cannot be opened for writing Support Thank You for Your help! You are right telling me that it is at question of accessing the file. I forgot to mention, that I use an extern harddisk which I …

Thank you for the reply. The "Owner" indeed showed a cryptic number and the current user name, and I was able to change the owner but it didn't help. I changed the Owner to my my user name, then to Administrator and to "Creator Owner". I also tried changing permissions, giving full control to anyo…

do you still get the same error message? I can't think of anything else but that the access rights do not match. So whether it is possible to have a whole drive as read only I don't know, but I doubt it as you can change the access attributes. Could it be that a virus scanner or something like th…

Thank you for the reply. Yes. I still get the same error message. this is a new computer with a new Windows 10 installed on it. the virus scanner is Windows 10's Windows Defender and I haven't changed anything in it, so I don't believe it blocks access, but I don't know. I don't if the drive has …

[image] Uri: this is a new computer with a new Windows 10 installed on it Please follow the instructions on the Microsoft page. Set the new access rights and ownership to the root folder and all sub-ordinate folders. If in doubt, use the functions to publish the root folder for everyone. E…

MP3 Tags Editing on External Hard Drive

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ohrenkino November 28, 2018, 6:19am 2

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