# Readonly files are overwritten without notifying the user
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/readonly-files-are-overwritten-without-notifying-the-user/54768
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [October 15, 2021, 6:19pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/readonly-files-are-overwritten-without-notifying-the-user/54768 "2021-10-15T18:19:17Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@Bernie](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Bernie)
#### Post date: [October 15, 2021, 6:19pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/readonly-files-are-overwritten-without-notifying-the-user/54768/1 "2021-10-15T18:19:17Z")
Scenario:
1. Create a directory which contains one readonly mp3 file.
2. Start Mp3tag.
3. Paste the full path of the directory to the field "Verzeichnis" and hit Enter.
4. Right-click the mp3 file and select "Tag entfernen".
Result:
The file content is changed (tag is removed), the readonly attribute is removed.
Expected result:
Readonly files should not be simply changed without notifying the user. The intention of a readonly flag is to prevent an application from changing the file content. All other applciations that I know tell the user something like "File is readonly and cannot be overwritten". At least, the user should be asked if readonly files should really be overwritten.
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [October 15, 2021, 6:35pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/readonly-files-are-overwritten-without-notifying-the-user/54768/2 "2021-10-15T18:35:19Z")
I am not quite sure if this is connected:
(from the [change log](https://www.mp3tag.de/changelog.html)):
[2015-07-08] CHG: renaming files marked as read-only does not require removing of read-only flag
anymore.
and alos here:
> [@How to disable read-only warnings?](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-disable-read-only-warnings/49691):
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> When you try to remove a tag from a read-only file, you get a warning. Can those warnings be disabled?
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### Author:  [@Bernie](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Bernie)
#### Post date: [October 15, 2021, 6:54pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/readonly-files-are-overwritten-without-notifying-the-user/54768/3 "2021-10-15T18:54:43Z")
Thanks ohrenkino for your reply. Before I submitted my issue, I searched for "readonly" or "Schreibschutz" using the search function on this website, and I found the "How to disable read-only warnings post". So I assumed that the current implementation behaves as it is wanted: overwrite a readonly file.
But is there a chance that Mp3tag behaves like other applications, which do not simply overwrite readonly files? This doesn't necessarily need to be the default behavior, an option somewhere might also be a good idea, so that every user can decide by himself which behavior he/she prefers.
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### Author:  [@ryerman](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ryerman)
#### Post date: [October 19, 2021, 6:31pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/readonly-files-are-overwritten-without-notifying-the-user/54768/4 "2021-10-19T18:31:08Z")
As you saw in the "How to disable read-only warnings post", Mp3tag used to warn when attempting to edit a read-only file.
But that warning was removed, some time after v3.05, without any explanation in the change-log.
I think that is a bug, not intended behaviour, and will make a bug report.
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [October 24, 2021, 9:45am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/readonly-files-are-overwritten-without-notifying-the-user/54768/5 "2021-10-24T09:45:39Z")
I've fixed that with [Mp3tag v3.10c](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/455). Thanks for pointing (and to @ryerman for the bug report)!
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### Author:  [@Bernie](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Bernie)
#### Post date: [October 24, 2021, 1:33pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/readonly-files-are-overwritten-without-notifying-the-user/54768/6 "2021-10-24T13:33:13Z")
Hello Florian, thanks a lot for that quick fix, I didn't expect that this would get fixed that fast. Best regards from Bayern.
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2021, 1:34pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/readonly-files-are-overwritten-without-notifying-the-user/54768/7 "2021-11-23T13:34:05Z")
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