Vista - File "Permissions" Problems

I just built a new computer for myself and loaded the new Windows Vista OS.
I installed Vista on a clean Raptor hard drive, and so far, so good.

However, ... one of my secondary hard drives I put into this new machine is
from my old computer, a drive in which I kept a majority of my
non-application files (word documents, photos, etc.).
For some reason in the past, I must have "password-protected" the folder for
My Pictures.

Now, I cannot seem to access ANY of the pictures from this hard drive. I am
getting an error message stating that I do not have the permissions.

I tried going into this folder and changing permissions, but nothing seems
to work. All of the files are displayed with a 'green' font, apparently to
show they are protected.

Any ideas?

Bill

Have you clicked the 'Advanced' button on the 'Security' tab of the folder's
Properities dialog. In the Advanced Securty dialog, there is a tab labeled
'Owner', click that, hi-lite your username in the 'Change owner to' section
& click 'OK' to take ownership of the folder.


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Good Luck,

Keith
Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User]

"Vilhiem" <vilhiem@comcast.net> wrote in message
newsA52CF1C-B61F-4B61-9173-03B738C09735@microsoft.com...
>I just built a new computer for myself and loaded the new Windows Vista OS.
>I installed Vista on a clean Raptor hard drive, and so far, so good.
>
> However, ... one of my secondary hard drives I put into this new machine
> is from my old computer, a drive in which I kept a majority of my
> non-application files (word documents, photos, etc.).
> For some reason in the past, I must have "password-protected" the folder
> for My Pictures.
>
> Now, I cannot seem to access ANY of the pictures from this hard drive. I
> am getting an error message stating that I do not have the permissions.
>
> I tried going into this folder and changing permissions, but nothing seems
> to work. All of the files are displayed with a 'green' font, apparently to
> show they are protected.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Bill
>

Hi,

If you encrypted them on the other system, then taking ownership will not be
sufficient. You would have to either decrypt them (on the other system), or
use the encryption certificate from the other system (which you should have
exported and made a backup of when you started using encryption).

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

"Vilhiem" <vilhiem@comcast.net> wrote in message
newsA52CF1C-B61F-4B61-9173-03B738C09735@microsoft.com...
>I just built a new computer for myself and loaded the new Windows Vista OS.
>I installed Vista on a clean Raptor hard drive, and so far, so good.
>
> However, ... one of my secondary hard drives I put into this new machine
> is from my old computer, a drive in which I kept a majority of my
> non-application files (word documents, photos, etc.).
> For some reason in the past, I must have "password-protected" the folder
> for My Pictures.
>
> Now, I cannot seem to access ANY of the pictures from this hard drive. I
> am getting an error message stating that I do not have the permissions.
>
> I tried going into this folder and changing permissions, but nothing seems
> to work. All of the files are displayed with a 'green' font, apparently to
> show they are protected.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Bill
>

Vilhiem wrote:
> I just built a new computer for myself and loaded the new Windows Vista
> OS. I installed Vista on a clean Raptor hard drive, and so far, so good.
>
> However, ... one of my secondary hard drives I put into this new machine
> is from my old computer, a drive in which I kept a majority of my
> non-application files (word documents, photos, etc.).
> For some reason in the past, I must have "password-protected" the folder
> for My Pictures.
>
> Now, I cannot seem to access ANY of the pictures from this hard drive. I
> am getting an error message stating that I do not have the permissions.
>
> I tried going into this folder and changing permissions, but nothing
> seems to work. All of the files are displayed with a 'green' font,
> apparently to show they are protected.

In addition to the good advice that Rick Rogers gave you, I answered
this question in the other newsgroup to which you posted and included
quite a few useful links. Find your other post to see them.

Next time please don't multipost; crosspost instead. Here is a link
explaining that:

http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/mul_crss.htm

Malke
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