issue with 3.9 and Wbpattern

[Thomas]

Hi,
 
Recent I iprepare a new 3.9 with bag 1,2,3 for my new A1200 060 and every thing fine but I can´t understand why I Can´t change the WBPattern picture whe i do the system show me this error:
 
 
file error
ENV:sys/WBPattern.pref
file its write protected
 
I try to setup the file with right button and then information change to can read, write etc..
 
But Still no work,  any one have any idea what happens??
 
Its a Winuae  environment
 
Thanks

You also need to change ENVARC:Sys/WBPattern.prefs.

ENV is in RAM and is used only for the current session ("Use" button). ENVARC is on your harddrive and the place where the permanent setting is stored ("Save" button). During boot ENVARC is copied to ENV, this means it is not of much use to make ENV write enabled because on next reboot the protection is copied from ENARC again.

BTW, you should mount the installation CD as a CD (with mount file in devs/dosdrivers) and not as a virtual harddrive (WinUAE settings). If you do this, there won't be problems with protection bits after installation. The problem arises because under Windows all files on a CD are marked write protected.

[Thomas]

Select "execute command" from the Workbench menu and enter this:

protect sys:#? +wd all

Wait until it is finished and reboot. This should cure it once and for all. No need to reinstall.

Only one more thing, on Vista or 7 don't store your Amiga files in C:\Program files. WinUAE won't be able to write to there, no matter what the protection bits say. Better move the files to C:\Users\Public or elsewhere where no exe files are.

A good place is C:\Users\Public\Documents\Amiga Files. That's where Amiga Forever stores its files and WinUAE automatically finds rom files and configurations there.