Back up stops with "the file is read only"
Hello,
My backups have begun stopping with the message "the file is read only, to specify another location click browse".
I'm backing up to a 6Tb drive with about 3Tb free.
I've tried choosing a new directory but after a few minutes the warning pops up again.
I could really use some help.
Thanks


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I ran in to this same problem today: "the file is read only, to specify another location click browse". I did a lot of googling for an answer. Found nothing helpful.
Looking at the dump that came in the last email that is generated following a backup it seemed to indicate the write error occurred trying to create the new incremental Acronis backup file (.tib extension) on my backup drive.
Later, while poking around my backup drive, which is a Western Digital drive, I saw an install exe for a suite of WD tools and installed it. Immediately, I noticed the WD tool was flagging the backup drive as "read only". I then found an article on how to change a "read only" drive to "read write". (I wanted to post the link to that article but was blocked by this forum from doing so.)
I am now rerunning the last scheduled backup job that failed due to the write error. I am confident that it will work now.
I have no clue how the backup drive became "read only".
I hope this is helpful.
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Stephen, welcome to these public User Forums.
Thank you for sharing your experience with this issue.
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