Vista Tutorial - Destination folder access denied

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Ozena wrote:
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> Go to MY COMPUTER

For the problem of copying from network drives:

On Win Vista, trying to copy a file from a share on Win XP. Some
files work, others give "Destination Folder Access Denied".
The error is really at the source, not the destination.
If I right-click the files from Vista, click "properties", and pick
the "security" tab, the files that do not work say "You do not have
permission to view or edit this object's permission settings"

Back on Win XP, the only way I can find to see file permissions is to
open a command prompt and use the "cacls" command:
C:\share>cacls *
C:\share\file1.exe COMPAQ800\Harold:F
NT AUTHORITY
\SYSTEM:F
BUILTIN
\Administrators:F

C:\share\file2.exe Everyone:C
BUILTIN\Administrators:F
COMPAQ800\Harold:F
NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM:F
BUILTIN\Users:R

The file1.exe gives the error, the file2.exe does not.
The difference is that file2.exe has "Everyone:C" and "BUILTIN
\Users:R".
So let's add those permissions to the first file and try again:

C:\share>cacls file1.exe /E /G Everyone:C
processed file: C:\share\file1.exe

Now the copy works! And permissions can be viewed on Win Vista also.
"Everyone:C" is what was needed ("BUILTIN\Users:R" did not help any).

To fix all the files in a directory, use * for the file name, and to
fix all files in all subdirectories also, add /T
Hope that helps!
--- Bob

My problem is a tad different... This is happening to me after disabling User
Account Control, then trying to move a folder from my Documents to my
Desktop. I immediately get the message "Destination folder access is denied.
You need permission to do this."

All of these ideas seem good, but none of them seem to be working... as a
desperation, I'm following the steps above taking full ownership of my C
drive, and giving myself full access permissions... i will let you know how
that works out.

"Bob Harold" wrote:

IT IS ALSO HAPPENING WHEN YOU TRY TO DELETA A EXE FILE. I CREATE A EXE FILE
FROM MY MACROMEDIA FLASH SOFTWARE AND I CANNOT DELETE ANY OF THE FILES THAT I
CREATED FROM FLASH. THEY ARE PROJECTORS FILES BUT WITH THE EXE EXTENSION AND
IT SEEMS VISTA IS CONTROLLING WHAT YOU DO WITH YOUR FILES. I DEACTIVATED DE
UAC AND CHECK TWICE THAT I HAVE FULL CONTROL OF THE FILE BUT STILL CANNOT
DELETE IT. I{M GETTING CRAZY WITH THE DESTINATION FOLDER ACCESS DENIED
MESSAGE THAT I GET EVERYTIME I TRY TO DELETE A EXE FILE CREATED BY ME.

WHAT CAN I DO?????????????????????????

Hi all, had this problem when Vista was first released. The way I have
successfully shared files is to adjust the settings in network & Sharing
centre, sharing & discovery, enable file sharing & public folder sharing,
(which is just like another user account, without such heavy restrictions)
choose if you need a password, then just use the public folders to share
files. The unc will be something like: \\PCNAME\PUBLIC from another PC.
Then all public folders are available.
Hope this helps...

"aaquique" wrote:

I'm assuming that you all still have the same problem. I experienced the same
problem a couple days ago and I have found a way around it, or so it works
for me. Another benefit from all that MCSE training I suppose.

Here is the problem that I had\have

I setup 3 machines on a basic wireless router. One machine is Windows Vista
Ultimate x64, and the other two are Windows XP x32. The primary propose for
the two XP machines are for file storage and for security (DMZ). The Vista
machine was designed solely as the primary workstation. The Vista is setup
like this…

3x 200GB on Raid 0 (primary drive)
1x 1TB SATA2 (second drive)

And the primary XP machine is setup like this….

1x 200GB SATA2 (primary drive)
2x 400GB ATA133 (second and third drive)

I setup this config about 3 weeks ago and everything has been working fine
UNTIL Vista thought it would be a good idea to do a “check disk� on my second
drive (the 1TB). After that I would get the same “Destination Folder Access
Denied� and “You need permission to perform this action�. I must have spent
about 4 hours fighting with Vista over who was boss. My saving grace was the
fact I knew exactly what was causing the problem. Vista changed the file and
user structure when performing the “check disk�. Yes it is true the problem
was fixed by taking ownership, setting “everyone� with full, and getting rid
of the “read-only�. My problem now is not from transferring from one computer
to another but from one dir to another. I have a dir called music with this
file structure… (within the 1TB)

Music
-------Alternative
-------Rock
-------etc
-------etc
-------Faith no More

I had moved the “Faith no More� dir from one of my XP machines to the folder
“Music� but can not move the folder to the “alternative� dir with out that
$*&#@^& message. After resetting all the permissions (taking ownership,
setting full, and removing read-only) on the “music� folder it works. Problem
is I have to do this process every time I move a folder within this DIR.

Any Ideas??

Tried the UAC, “show all�, and a few others with no luck.


"jasoncollege24" wrote:

G'Day All.
I have joined this forum just so I can post my fix to these access denied folder problems...

Firstly, I was having the same problem many others do. I'm the only user on my Vista box, and I am the Administrator. Attempting to click on any folder that had a small arrow over the bottom left corner of the folder icon in Windows Explorer caused the Access Denied error. I tried setting UAC on / off, disabling Defender, AVG Anti Virus etc - nothing helped.

Then I discovered the DOS command TAKEOWN and used the /? option to get help.

I began by going to the START / SEARCH command and typing CMD (without pressing ENTER). cmd.exe appears at the top of the pop-up window.

Next, RIGHT CLICK on cmd.exe and choose RUN AS ADMINISTRATOR (This is necessary, even if you are already an Admin User)

Once the command window appears, enter CD C:\
(Change Directory to the root of C

Now enter TAKEOWN /?
(Displays HELP for the command)

After reading the help, I determined the following options should do the trick:
TAKEOWN /f * /r /a

Running the above command, the DOS window scrolled through the file list until it came to a folder that was causing problems. It said:

Do you want to replace the directory permissions with permissions granting you full control (Yes / No / Cancel). I chose YES.

The scrolling now continued until it crashed on a LNK file.

Even though it did not alter the properties on every file, the folders had all been reset.

I exited the command window, restarted Vista, and now all the folders are accessible.

Hopefully this will help some other people.

Regards, Greg.

Step by step instruction on how to take ownership of a folder



Run CMD (as administrator) and type: takeown [path] /f <filename or folder>

OR

- Right-click the file/folder you want to own, click properties

- Click Security Tab

- Click Advanced

- Click the Owner Tab

- Click Edit

- Select the Administrators group from the list

- Click OK

- Click OK

- Click OK

You have now taken 'Ownership' of the file and you can close the property

Windows



Now again



1) Right-click on the file

2) Select Properties

3) Go to the Security tab again, click the Advanced button

4) Now Press Edit, then double-click 'Administrators' in the list and tick

the 'allow' box for 'Full control'



You have now taken 'Full control' of file


--
Leo

Liberalism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere may be happy.







"Greg Hudson" <guest@xxxxxx-email.com> wrote in message
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I ran this, got possession of all my folders. I sill get the same error
when i try to set a restore point.

John

Greg Hudson wrote:

I bought a "Rock HDD" 160 gig to do backup using Live Onecare. Apparently 160 gig is not big enough. I want to remove this HDD and install it on another PC in my Onecare circle. I'm trying to erase the disk so it will be blank when I install it. My problem is that when I try to install it I get the messge Access denied to Destination Folder. Permission required. I am the administrator of this PC. Who, what or how do I get permission to erase this disk?