Files on external drive cannot be accessed (owner + permissions hell!)

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       #21

    My Picassa is jammed up compacting stuff.

    I'm reading a few successes before a terminal error that stopped the whole changing of permissions.
    Ex:
    SUCCESS: The file (or folder): "C:\Users\1 Eric Bentsen\AppData\Local\Application Data\Application Data\Application Data\Application Data\Application Data\Application Data\Application Data\Application Data\Application Data\Application Data\Application Data\Adobe\Acrobat\10.0\UserCache.bin" now owned by user "*Computername*\1 Eric Bentsen".

    Yeah, that was 11 X \Application Data
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       #22

    zapat3ro said:
    oops! is it like this?

    Kaktussoft said:
    zapat3ro said:
    Ok, I got them, I think, based on the doc. Is this the way it's supposed to go?
    autenticated users is wrong!! it shouldn't be special.
    put checkmarks on item 2 ...9,11,12 only in left column.
    post screnshot afterwards again
    yes!! That's the default.
    But are you already owner of all files and dolders as asked before?
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       #23

    Cymbal Man Freq said:
    My Picassa is jammed up compacting stuff.

    I'm reading a few successes before a terminal error that stopped the whole changing of permissions.
    Ex:
    SUCCESS: The file (or folder): "C:\Users\1 Eric Bentsen\AppData\Local\Application Data\Application Data\Application Data\Application Data\Application Data\Application Data\Application Data\Application Data\Application Data\Application Data\Application Data\Adobe\Acrobat\10.0\UserCache.bin" now owned by user "*Computername*\1 Eric Bentsen".

    Yeah, that was 11 X \Application Data
    please show screenshot of permissions of C:\Users\1 Eric Bentsen folder. So folder, not files within it
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       #24

    zapat3ro: Have already done this?
    #11
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  5. Posts : 115
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       #25

    My Picassa was one of the last things changed before the DOS permissions change crash, now it doesn't seem to work properly at all anymore. I don't know how to get a screenshot up.

    For C:\Users\1 Eric Bentsen
    SYSTEM - All checked except Special Permissions
    HomeUsers - Only Special Permissions checked
    1 Eric Bentsen - All checked except Special Permissions
    Administrators - All checked except Special Permissions
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       #26

    Cymbal Man Freq said:
    My Picassa was one of the last things changed before the DOS permissions change crash, now it doesn't seem to work properly at all anymore. I don't know how to get a screenshot up.

    For C:\Users\1 Eric Bentsen
    SYSTEM - All checked except Special Permissions
    HomeUsers - Only Special Permissions checked
    1 Eric Bentsen - All checked except Special Permissions
    Administrators - All checked except Special Permissions
    That's fine as it is!
    press advanced there. Then select "owner" tab there you can change the owner. Make it your name!!
    Also put a checkmark there so "underlying objects and containers" will be changed ownership. (translated form dutch, so can be other text) no click ok multiple times.

    Now go again to security for C:\Users\1 Eric Bentsen and again advanced. then change permissions. put a checkmark and second option only, so clear the first one if activated. press ok multiple times.
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       #27

    I just had to restore that folder to a previous time so things work again. Luckily that point was yesterday afternoon.
    On Win XP I used to be able to create my own restore points too, but that seems to be missing on Win 7. The machine decides when to create a restore point, and I have no idea how much hard disk space Restore takes up these days. I had several entries to choose from just from yesterday, and it threatened to take 2 hours to restore 12.7 GB, luckily it was more like 15 minutes.
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  8. Posts : 115
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       #28

    OK, I was already the Owner of that folder. I checked the box "Replace owner on subcontainers and objects" then Apply, and now it's changing permissions on thousands of files. There have been a handful of "Access Denied" errors so far that had to be skipped past. But I haven't hit a spate of hundreds of files to click past yet. It's still early in the process.
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       #29

    Cymbal Man Freq said:
    I just had to restore that folder to a previous time so things work again. Luckily that point was yesterday afternoon.
    On Win XP I used to be able to create my own restore points too, but that seems to be missing on Win 7. The machine decides when to create a restore point, and I have no idea how much hard disk space Restore takes up these days. I had several entries to choose from just from yesterday, and it threatened to take 2 hours to restore 12.7 GB, luckily it was more like 15 minutes.
    system properties->tab security.
    System Restore Point - Create
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  10. Posts : 10,796
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       #30

    zapat3ro: Already saved the new permissions for E:\? please do it then do this from security->advanced where you was before. If done, press OK a few times.

    return to security->advanced ->tab owner->change. Make yourself the owner. Be sure to put a checkmark at the bottom. Now click OK a few times

    Now you are the owner of all files/folders.


    Then open this screen


    put a checkmark at "Replace all child object......"" and press ok.
    Last edited by Kaktussoft; 09 Nov 2012 at 08:28.
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