Hi Richard,
It's one of two things:
1) If it's a Vista system that you are getting the files from, then you are
accessing the wrong folders. Vista does not use "My..." except as a
placeholder. The files would be under the user profile as simply Documents,
Downloads, Music, etc.
2) If it's from an XP/2000 installation, then you need to take ownership of
the folders before you can access them. Right click the folder and select
properties. Go to the Security tab and click advanced. Move to the Owner tab
and click edit. Locate and select your user account, then enable the box to
propagate to all subfolders and containers. Click apply and let it run.
Close the security dialogs and retry accessing the folder.
--
Best of Luck,
Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help -
www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts
http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com
"Richard" <rng@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Quote:
> On Sat, 27 Oct 2007 15:06:00 -0700, Geoff
> <Geoff@xxxxxx>
> wrote:
> Quote:
>>I decided to migrate only my own objects, and unchecked all
>>the others. The transfer worked, but every folder I try to open on the
>>Vista
>>machine gives me an error: "C:\.[filename].. is not accessible. Access is
>>denied."
>>ID's are the same on both computers. How do I get to all the files that
>>got
>>migrated?
>
> The same thing happened to me. I can see the folders (My Pictures, My
> Videos,
> etc.) but I get the same error message as Geoff. For each such folder, I
> looked
> at the security settings, and it says that the folder can be accessed by
> Everyone.
>
> Does anyone have a solution?
>