Railworks America

I have been downloading and making some physics modifications and have noticed that some of these folders were set to "Read Only" but seemed to accept the changes. Could this be that I run TS as an Administrator? Is it a good idea to remove the "Read Only" option from the Railworks folder or at least the Assets folder?

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AS
The only caveat if you make the files read/write is if you ever verify the gaming files then Steam will reacquire all of those files as it thinks that they have been changed in some way. That is it "changes" them back to r/o.
AFAIK there are no issues in making all TS files read/write and that can be done easily in TS_Tools.
Like you, I have not experienced any issues with the files being read-only - but then I do not use the editor extensively.
pH

I removed the read only attribute from my Assets folder using the Properties tab. When I went back to look after I had exited Railworks it had reconfigured back to Read only. Is this what happens after I close the Railworks folder after modifying files?
I have seen instructions in modding files to remove the read only attribute for changes to work, again like you I have not had issues. Maybe because running as Admin?

When you extract folders (.ap files) with TS-Tools, it also converts the files to read/write.

The black square does not mean the folder is read only!

See my post here:
viewtopic.php?f=85&t=23032#p262167

Wayne
Maybe not but reported in the Microsoft answers:

Some programs may display error messages when you try to save files to a folder that uses the Read-only or System attribute. As a result, these programs may not be able to save files to the folder.

I agree with you that with a dot in the box it does not mean that a file is r/o - a tick would show that (?). But if a file is definitely r/o then it can cause the problems stated above.
Possibly the only sure way to make sure a file is really/correctly read-write is to use a command-line prompt and/or remove the read-only setting via a command prompt: attrib -r +s drive:\<path>\<foldername>, and then only if you have issues writing to files.
Sometimes the disk-write error in steam is due to the r/o attribute.
pH

RW-Tools has a feature for removing this attribute.
It uses ATTRIB for you so you don't have to remember the syntax.

I just go doing my thing and when it tells me I can't change it I go to the file right click to properties and change it.

Chacal
FYI TS_Tools has replaced RW_Tools see my post above.
pH