Vista - Take Ownership of file

Thanks for the welcome!
The file is located on my recovery D: drive and I am attempting to move it to C:\ drive in C:\My Music Stash folder.
The full recovery file location is
D:\music\heart\(song name.mp3).

UAC is already disabled and if it helps you any, windows explorer sometimes stops responding when I am attempting to change admin privileges to music files. Also, Windows Media center that came with Vista is no longer working, and when I turned off security center and UAC a few months back, I now see desktop file folders on the desktop itself (2 to be exact, and by desktop I mean a little grey sheet of paper with a corner folded down and a little wheel attached to it with the word "desktop" on it).

Inside all of my "tee" user name folders is the desktop icon/folder and in the D:\ recovery drive there's like a recycle bin folder, a i386 folder, a boot folder, a program file folder, and a few others. They all have a little lockpad instead of the folder icon, so when I click on them they say
protected by pc angel recovery partition.
A few months back I had to reinstall a lot of software when I turned off UAC and security center and somewhere in there is when I got the desktop icons all over the place and the files in recovery D:\.
There is more background to this, but I don't want to bore you.
But if you want to know all I'll fess up. I think I goofed somewhere.

TeeFran,

The problem may be the name of the folder you are trying to move the music file to. Anytime a folder is named "My ...." Vista will think it is one of it's junction point files and will not allow access to it. Another problem coulbe that the D: drive is a protected partition. It may not alllow items to be deleted or moved from it. You might try copying the file to just on the desktop as a test to see if it will copy over then.


The gray desktop icons you see on your desktop are actually "hidden protected operating system files" called desktop.ini . You can get rid of these by setting the protected operating system files to hide again. You can see how in Option Two step 5 of this tutorial.

Hidden Files and Folders

Hope this helps,
Shawn

Thank you!
I'll work on that for a while and get back to you with results.
I really appreciate your help.
BTW, can I donate without a paypal account, since I do not have one?
You can email me with that info separately since it is not related to this forum.

O-Kay, I followed the steps to take ownership of the music folder in the D:\ drive using cmd, which was successful this time but I still received 'need permission to perform this action' when I went back to delete the music folder.


I right-clicked on the music file, changed the ownership of it and still no go.


I right-clicked on the D:\ drive itself and took ownership of it (it went through, but then windows explorer stopped working and restarted itself, so then I restarted the pc).

On the plus side, the music folder in D:\ is now empty (no music files in the folder itself), but I cannot delete the music folder where all the songs where. I was able to make a copy of the actual music file itself (the .mp3) and paste it on the desktop and then deleted it from there. Doing that seemed to delete it from the music folder in D:\ because I went back to the folder and it was gone. Good thing I had a copy of that song saved on a flash, I just copied the song from the flash to where I wanted it to be so that problem is resolved.
Are there any other ways to delete that music file now that it is empty off of the D:\ drive? I have ownership of the folder, it's just not letting me delete the music folder (which I created btw). It gives me the 'you need permission' message whenever I try to delete it.


I can post this in another place on the forum if this is not the right spot.

Thanks in advance for input.

TeeFran,

I'm glad to hear that you almost got everything the way you wanted it.

You might try renaming the folder to something different on the D: drive to see if you can delete it afterwards.

Shawn

That's a no go also.
I named it 'stuff', you need permission...
I named it 'move', you need permission...
I named it 'new name', you need permission...

Is there something else I can try?

TeeFran,

Do you by chance have any subfolders in the Music folder you are trying to delete? If so, delete them first, then the main Music folder on D:/ .

Sometimes, it just will not let you delete a folder without deleting the subfolders first. Just some quirk.

OK this is crazy!!

I shut my computer off after I posted to you last to wait for your reply.
I booted up and got online to see what your suggestion might be, and after reading your post I opened windows explorer to delete any subfolders and the folder was gone!! WTH!!

After everything I went through to delete that file could it be as simple as restarting after you get 'need permission...' prompt? I promise I did nothing else since waiting for your reply but shut down the pc.

That was too weird! Anyway thanks for the info and all your help.

LOL TeeFran,

My guess is that something was still using the folder and the restart left the folder unused again and allowed it.

I always said that the simplest solutions are the ones that fix themselves.

Shawn

Takeownership.reg worked brilliantly! Thanks heaps
David