Vista - Access denied to files and folders

I'm a software developer and after a debug crash I cannot access a folder
which my program was using. It simply says "Access denied". I have tried to
restart Vista (Ultimate), but it doesn't work. I have tried from the dos
prompt using rd and rmdir /S and it doesn't work. I am the owner and
administrator of the folders which I'm trying to access. I have tried to
change the How can I remove the directory?

Joachim wrote:
> I'm a software developer and after a debug crash I cannot access a
> folder which my program was using. It simply says "Access denied". I
> have tried to restart Vista (Ultimate), but it doesn't work. I have
> tried from the dos prompt using rd and rmdir /S and it doesn't work.
> I am the owner and administrator of the folders which I'm trying to
> access. I have tried to change the How can I remove the directory?

Which directory?

When this happened to me on a USB drive I had to go to the root and take
ownership of everything before setting the permissions and replacing the
existing permissions, again from root.

I could read and write to the directory and like you I had full control over
the it but I couldn't delete the it.

Once the permissions had been changed I could delete it.

Thank you Neil,

However, I cannot event take ownership over the folder - I get "Access
denied" when I try.

Regards,
Joachim

"Neil Harley" wrote:

> Joachim wrote:
> > I'm a software developer and after a debug crash I cannot access a
> > folder which my program was using. It simply says "Access denied". I
> > have tried to restart Vista (Ultimate), but it doesn't work. I have
> > tried from the dos prompt using rd and rmdir /S and it doesn't work.
> > I am the owner and administrator of the folders which I'm trying to
> > access. I have tried to change the How can I remove the directory?
>
> Which directory?
>
> When this happened to me on a USB drive I had to go to the root and take
> ownership of everything before setting the permissions and replacing the
> existing permissions, again from root.
>
> I could read and write to the directory and like you I had full control over
> the it but I couldn't delete the it.
>
> Once the permissions had been changed I could delete it.
>
>

Joachim wrote:
> Thank you Neil,
>
> However, I cannot event take ownership over the folder - I get "Access
> denied" when I try.
>
> Regards,
> Joachim
>

Joachim

are you taking ownership from the root of the drive? I couldn't take
ownership of the folder on my USB drive either but from the root there
weren't any problems.

Its likely to be one of the many junctions in vista. Google vista junctions


"Joachim" <Joachim@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> I'm a software developer and after a debug crash I cannot access a folder
> which my program was using. It simply says "Access denied". I have tried
> to
> restart Vista (Ultimate), but it doesn't work. I have tried from the dos
> prompt using rd and rmdir /S and it doesn't work. I am the owner and
> administrator of the folders which I'm trying to access. I have tried to
> change the How can I remove the directory?