glee wrote in message ...
I don't know why it takes so long to see the properties of a large file....I see the
same behaviour here, and yes, it is aggravating. :-)
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I just tried it on 2 files, one 86 MB, the other 110 MB.

The response was instantaneous. No delay at all.....

Did you try it on different file types, or just MPEG files?

I don't have an MPEG file on my computer, so I couldn't try that file type



"Peabody" wrote in message
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glee says...

You can change the read-only attribute on all the files
after the copy is completed. Open the folder on the hard
drive where all the files have been copied. Press Ctrl+A
to select all the files, then right-click on one of the
files, and choose Properties on the menu that appears.
In the Attributes section of the property sheet, uncheck
the box for Read-only, and click OK.

Ok, thanks. I found that when I tried to change attributes
one file at a time, Windows appeared to be reading through
the entire file before bringing up the Properties box (why
does it do that?), which takes a while on a large mpeg file.
But I tried it your way, it appears to work fine, without
reading through each file, so long as I do more than one
file at a time.

You could also use this neat little freeware to do it:
Attrib-R
http://www.geocities.com/edgemeal_software/Attrib-R.htm

Thanks for your help.