How can I make a file writable that is currently read-only?
Location: http://www.jguru.com/faq/view.jsp?EID=211342 Created: Sep 20, 2000 Modified: 2000-09-20 14:02:03.696 Author: John Zukowski (http://www.jguru.com/guru/viewbio.jsp?EID=7) Question originally posed by Simon English (http://www.jguru.com/guru/viewbio.jsp?EID=209980 There is only support in Java to make a writable file read-only. There is no way to go the other way. I guess someone considered this a security risk so didn’t add an appropriate API to perform.