Vista - Unaccessable Folders

No. They are system protected. Also, they are just pointers (links) to the
real folders which are also system protected.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!



"JamesJ" <jjy@adelphia_darwin.com> wrote in message
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> Certain folders under Users, when clicked, access is denied.
> Any way around this?
>
> Thanks,
> James

Certain folders under Users, when clicked, access is denied.
Any way around this?

Thanks,
James

As Richard said,

These are not folders, they are application compatibility junctions. These
locations no longer exist in Vista, as they have been replaced, moved, or
renamed.

Do not edit the security on these junctions.

You should learn where the location you are trying to access has been moved
to, and use the new location.

To do that, you can use the command prompt. CD to the folder that contains
the location you are trying to access, issue a 'dir /al' command, and find
the junction you are looking for and it will display the location that it
points to in brackets.


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- JB
Microsoft MVP - Windows Shell/User

Windows Vista Support Faq
http://www.jimmah.com/vista/

I had this happen after I restored my Documents folder with Nero 7 BackItUp.
It put my Documents into a folder in Documents. I copied all the files and
folders from /Documents/Documents into the Documents folder and it would not
let me open any files but everything in any folder was fine. I restored
again, overwriting the files and it still failed. I had to delete the files,
restore them to a different folder and then copy them. I' lost : /
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Sam


"Jimmy Brush" wrote:

> As Richard said,
>
> These are not folders, they are application compatibility junctions. These
> locations no longer exist in Vista, as they have been replaced, moved, or
> renamed.
>
> Do not edit the security on these junctions.
>
> You should learn where the location you are trying to access has been moved
> to, and use the new location.
>
> To do that, you can use the command prompt. CD to the folder that contains
> the location you are trying to access, issue a 'dir /al' command, and find
> the junction you are looking for and it will display the location that it
> points to in brackets.
>
>
> --
> - JB
> Microsoft MVP - Windows Shell/User
>
> Windows Vista Support Faq
> http://www.jimmah.com/vista/
>

Did you back up the documents using Nero 7 in Windows XP? If so, the problem
may have been with the security settings that Windows XP applied to the
files.


--
- JB
Microsoft MVP - Windows Shell/User

Windows Vista Support Faq
http://www.jimmah.com/vista/

I these folders are under the Users folder and have an arrow
indicating a link.
Is this by design?

James

"Jimmy Brush" <JimmyBrush@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:833BDA6F-DDD4-4E59-9F75-D224FCC8A4DB@microsoft.com...
> As Richard said,
>
> These are not folders, they are application compatibility junctions. These
> locations no longer exist in Vista, as they have been replaced, moved, or
> renamed.
>
> Do not edit the security on these junctions.
>
> You should learn where the location you are trying to access has been
> moved to, and use the new location.
>
> To do that, you can use the command prompt. CD to the folder that contains
> the location you are trying to access, issue a 'dir /al' command, and find
> the junction you are looking for and it will display the location that it
> points to in brackets.
>
>
> --
> - JB
> Microsoft MVP - Windows Shell/User
>
> Windows Vista Support Faq
> http://www.jimmah.com/vista/

I backed up the files with Nero 7 under Vista RC2 #5744. The computer has
exactly the same name and same user.
--
Sam


"Jimmy Brush" wrote:

> Did you back up the documents using Nero 7 in Windows XP? If so, the problem
> may have been with the security settings that Windows XP applied to the
> files.
>
>
> --
> - JB
> Microsoft MVP - Windows Shell/User
>
> Windows Vista Support Faq
> http://www.jimmah.com/vista/
>

No I didn't.

James

"Jimmy Brush" <JimmyBrush@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:E82EEE8F-B1EE-4B58-9264-2FDF5D8619D7@microsoft.com...
> Did you back up the documents using Nero 7 in Windows XP? If so, the
> problem may have been with the security settings that Windows XP applied
> to the files.
>
>
> --
> - JB
> Microsoft MVP - Windows Shell/User
>
> Windows Vista Support Faq
> http://www.jimmah.com/vista/

I already said as much.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!



"JamesJ" <jjy@@adelphia_darwin.net> wrote in message
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>I these folders are under the Users folder and have an arrow
> indicating a link.
> Is this by design?
>
> James
>
> "Jimmy Brush" <JimmyBrush@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:833BDA6F-DDD4-4E59-9F75-D224FCC8A4DB@microsoft.com...
>> As Richard said,
>>
>> These are not folders, they are application compatibility junctions.
>> These locations no longer exist in Vista, as they have been replaced,
>> moved, or renamed.
>>
>> Do not edit the security on these junctions.
>>
>> You should learn where the location you are trying to access has been
>> moved to, and use the new location.
>>
>> To do that, you can use the command prompt. CD to the folder that
>> contains the location you are trying to access, issue a 'dir /al'
>> command, and find the junction you are looking for and it will display
>> the location that it points to in brackets.
>>
>>
>> --
>> - JB
>> Microsoft MVP - Windows Shell/User
>>
>> Windows Vista Support Faq
>> http://www.jimmah.com/vista/
>

OK...

If it was a completely different installation of Windows (regardless of
version), then the security settings would be different enough not to work.

Security settings go by ID number internally, not user name, so even though
the user names may be the same, the internal ID numbers would not.


--
- JB
Microsoft MVP - Windows Shell/User

Windows Vista Support Faq
http://www.jimmah.com/vista/