Libraries not locked

Software
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I have just installed KiCad onto a laptop and form some reason the symbol libraries do not appear to be locked.
If I go in ‘symbol editor’ it will let me save a new symbol to the default libraries. My other 2 pc’s do not let me do it which I believe is correct.

I have tried read only setting the directories but that only comes up with an error when I try and save the new symbol not when I click to create it.

Application: KiCad Symbol Editor (64-bit)

Version: (6.0.1), release build

Libraries:
wxWidgets 3.1.5
libcurl/7.78.0-DEV Schannel zlib/1.2.11

Platform: Windows 10 (build 19042), 64-bit edition, 64 bit, Little endian, wxMSW

Build Info:
Date: Jan 15 2022 13:36:27
wxWidgets: 3.1.5 (wchar_t,wx containers)
Boost: 1.76.0
OCC: 7.5.0
Curl: 7.78.0-DEV
ngspice: 35
Compiler: Visual C++ 1929 without C++ ABI

Build settings:
KICAD_USE_OCC=ON
KICAD_SPICE=ON

Anybody know if there is a setting to enable the lock so I don’t accidently save something here.

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KiCad just uses your file system for the read-only attribute, so you can set then to read-only with your normal operating system functions.

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Another possibility is running KiCad as Administrator, never do that

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