How I add read only resource data folder to Pycharm Project

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How can I add an existing local data folder into a Pycharm project? How can I specify this folder (and everything under it) as read only?

I have a lot of data in shared OneDrive folder, the local copy exist in my computer hard disk. I would like use that data as read only for my Python codes and be sure that I have no changes to accidentally remove or add anything to those folders.

I do not want to change general hard disk folder permissions, just mark data read only for my code runs in Pycharm.

Operation system is Windows 10, Python is 3.X.

user2235698 · Accepted Answer · 2020-04-03 22:18:34Z

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File system is the only one who could set and check permission on files.

PyCharm is unable to track activity of external process (Python interpreter with your script).

Possible solution could be adding that data to version control system, committing and reverting if python script changed something.

answered Apr 3, 2020 at 22:18

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Antti A Over a year ago

Thank you for the answer. Unfortunately this does not solve my problem, if I ran the codes from my hard disk. Amount of data is >> free capacity in hard disk.

Antti A Over a year ago

I have used git as version control system of my codes and I want to keep them separately. But when I think more, I'll need to use file path to the root of the data folder, like: if os.environ['COMPUTERNAME']="my_computer_name": path_name = "E:/my_data_folder". In this way, we can share data separately and the codes with git version control.

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