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I may become your most hated member in the next few days, but please bear with me, as the problems just never end. I knew the answer to this one the first time it happened but i cannot recall now. I open a txt file and edit it, then when i try to save it i can't. It offers to save it to the same location but as a different file. And if i try to just save it with the same name it won't overwrite the original. I just want to "save" and have it save the edit and close.

Wait, are you saying i will have tyo do this with every file i ever try to edit?! Because thats ridiculous. If thats the case i'd definitely go back to XP. But it didn't happen before so theres gotta be some other reason.

Oh, and no, it's not read only. In fact, this file is on a storage drive and was editable last install. Speaking of last installs, this may be the last 7 install because i think i'm on the verge of going back to XP. 7 is just ridiculous. I mean, i understand the reality of this....i just have to know how to do things. But good god, i'm spending entire days just trying to make this crazy OS usable !

So you are working on a data partition that was part of another Windows installation? You must update the permissions of that partition then. The old permissions are being used on the drive.

No, it's a storage drive. And this file did not do this when i edited it before i reinstalled 7 this morning. Why now?

But like i said, it WORKED in the previous install ! In fact, i never had this problem with that same file or any other file in XP, or in the last 2 times i had 7 on this new pc. And every time that drive was just a storage drive, E:. (yes, this is my 3rd install of 7) So that doesn't make any sense.