"Almeida-meister" <ALHeather@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1174145850.481637.221820@o5g2000hsb.googlegroups.com...
> Hello folks,
>
> A few weeks ago my XP laptop died. So I went out and bought a vista
> laptop and an enclosure for my old hard disk drive so I could salvage
> my photos, music etc etc.
>
> So, the old HDD works perfectly except I don't have the permissions
> for any of my old documents...
>
> I've tried changing the permissions but it means I have to do it for
> every single file... even then I still can't open my old pictures.
>
> Is there a way I can change every file in a directory in one swoop.
> There is an option to do that but it doesn't appear to work very well.
When you go to take ownership of the folder the data is in...
you should have the ability to take ownership of all the files within that
folder