Can´t remove "read-only"-flag on steam folder or subfolders

[Týr]

So, I use a lot of modding tools for my Skyrim SE game and recently they started having troubles, I think it´s because the steam-folder and all subfolders are read-only.
The problem is, I can´t remove the "read-only"-option in folder settings, everytime I uncheck that tick-box it just defaults back to read-only.
And yes, I am admin on my computer.

[David Hasseloof]

did you ever get this fixed? I am having the same problem for steam games where i get a error like that. When ever i download any game on steam i get a location in the files, then it says "disk writing error"

[Týr]

Yes, but it was such a hurdle I'm not sure what finally solved it. Pretty sure it was a admin rights issue.

[Coffee]

Not saying its the case, but I ran into this issue on a PC that was badly infested with multiple viruses or just one extremely bad malware or a trojan letting others in. And whatever it was was so nasty, that it had to have gone into one of my hardware (probably the CPU/motherboard since never had money to replace it). Weird things like this happened, though there wasn't like popups or noticeable slowness. And I only realized I had a trojan (or some kinda virus) which let in a keylogger when every single account I had used (even those with different passwords) got hacked. Before that I thought it was just weird glitches like this.

Ironically, I'm pretty sure it came from bethesda/skyrim mods I was using, not everything came from the nexus and I never use steam workshop for bethesda modding (too many problems on
a big mod order or at least it used to). Though nexus did have problems with viruses in the past to begin with. Good virus protection, script blockers+ublock origin stops all and any malicious scripts/ads etc. Never download illegal games, and the only thing I did that was off was downloading mods for skyrim from unofficial sources and probably sources people never heard of.

But I was sure having weird random things on my PC at the time. One of that being where my folders would randomly (but rarely) go to read-only. Even reinstalling the PC did nothing (accounts kept getting randomly hacked on that PC no matter what I did), factory wipe, complete fresh reinstall with a windows disk/boot clean etc, so whatever it was had gone right to my hardware which the really nasty viruses can do. The virus also tried to attack my parents firewall after 6 or so months each reinstall. My dad's firewall kept getting attacked by my computer (then I'd reinstall it, even if it was a basic reinstall and it go away for 6 months), this is even after a complete fresh new computer, going from windows 7 to 10 on a brand new windows 10 disk and a fresh clean boot wipe and all the proper stuff. I even replaced all my ram, GPU and stuff thinking my hardware was bad, just never replaced my CPU/motherboard in that PC so it had to have gone there.

Besides the hacking though and the firewall issue, everything else just seemed like random glitches or hardware bugging out, it was a little subtle stuff but stuff that was incredibly hard to fix (like read-only I only fixed by just reinstalling the PC, but the problem eventually came back). Annoyingly and minor, my mouse cursor would change to some random one all the time that comes with windows itself but not the default one and looked ugly and weird, usually I'd be able to fix it by changing back to the default cursor, but then sometimes it would be locked and I'd have to reinstall to fix it. A bunch of tiny (but super hard to fix) and subtle stuff like that.

Finally got an entire new PC last year and never had a problem since.

[Týr]

Pretty sure that wasn't my problem. Never had an account hacked in my life.

[Cᐰptain ᐰwsome #119864 snapd]

Gonna add disk full to help people find this thread

[mcat]

In case anybody still needs this:
I had this issue with my H: drive, the directory was H:\SteamLibrary and I was trying to add a new Steam Library for the drive.

I had success by ditching the Read Only issue - when you're creating the Steam Library use the "Let me choose the location" option, and press "Add".
If you call the dir something else (get creative, I used "H:\SteamLib") the issue might be fixed

[Electric Cupcake]

Remember this when Windows starts asking to update to 11 or to use the Windows Store's black box binary blobs.

Microsoft has sunken past the point of no return, which even Windows ME didn't accomplish. I blame the sheeple who embraced and normalized mobile app stores and forced permissions and telemetry and locked root.

[Shillelagh]

Reject microsoft, return to linux.

[oktober.™]

i still am looking for help on this it will not work for me !!!

[76561199418627359]

This thread was quite old before the recent post, so we're locking it to prevent confusion.