I am using Windows XP Pro. When I am in Windows Explorer and select a
folder on the left, the contents, which consists of folders and files
appears on the right.

If I select all the folders and files on the right and press delete,
the files begin to delete. However, I often will get prompts
appearing such as "this file is read only, are you sure you want to
delete" as well as other similar messages.

Is there any way to delete these files through explorer and not get
those prompts so that when delete is selected, all files are deleted,
no prompts?

If you select the read-only files, and globally clear the read only
attribute (in explorer, select them and right click on Properties and
uncheck that box), it would be.

john454 wrote:
> I am using Windows XP Pro. When I am in Windows Explorer and select a
> folder on the left, the contents, which consists of folders and files
> appears on the right.
>
> If I select all the folders and files on the right and press delete,
> the files begin to delete. However, I often will get prompts
> appearing such as "this file is read only, are you sure you want to
> delete" as well as other similar messages.
>
> Is there any way to delete these files through explorer and not get
> those prompts so that when delete is selected, all files are deleted,
> no prompts?

Only thing is that there are 1000s of files that I back up nightly and
when I need to delete files, there are probably 10 times that many. I
wouldn't be able to check the attributes of each file to find out
which one someone accidentally put a read only attribute.

That's kind of why I was hoping there was a way to delete the files
through explorer without prompts. I know you can surpress prompts
when you delete through a dos prompt, but would prefer to stick with
explorer.

Then you will need to select "Yes to All".

john454 wrote:

> Only thing is that there are 1000s of files that I back up nightly and
> when I need to delete files, there are probably 10 times that many. I
> wouldn't be able to check the attributes of each file to find out
> which one someone accidentally put a read only attribute.
>
> That's kind of why I was hoping there was a way to delete the files
> through explorer without prompts. I know you can surpress prompts
> when you delete through a dos prompt, but would prefer to stick with
> explorer.