been spending the last hour setting them to read only LOl If you are using windows, you should be able to do a search for rsr under geometries (Start->Search), and select all the appropriate files (you might have to sort by file type). Once they are all selected, you should be able to mass change their attributes (read only, read-write....) I'm sure Macs have something similar, but haven't used one in a long time, so I don't know how you go about doing it on that platform. eric