Topic: Podium won't open

If you open the properties dialog for one of the read-only files, deselect the “Read-only” checkbox, and press OK, does that not make the file writable again?

If that works, you can select multiple files in the File Explorer and open the Properties dialog to remove the Read-only checkmark for all files in one go.

I don’t know how some of your document files suddenly are read-only. Perhaps it could have happened if you for example have copied your documents from a read-only backup media.

That sounds spooky. Do you have more than one drive in your PC? Is there plenty of free HD space available? Have you checked your PC with virus/malware detection software?

It may also be worth doing a check for file system errors: In the Windows File Manager, open the Properties dialog for the drive, and click the “Check” button on the Tools page.

30GB free space should be enough to not cause these issues. I’m running out of ideas of what else to suggest. If you have files in your Documents folder on which you cannot remove the ‘read-only’ option checkmark, then something is going on outside of Podiums control. Did you run the ‘Check > Scan drive’ tool on the drive?

I’m having a similar problem, Podium tries to open and then immediately crashes. I can go into my projects folder and get them to open, sometimes I have to restart even to do that, but that’s a hassle. On Windows 10, where do you find the list of affected apps in Windows Defender?