Lost ownership of Folders and files after removing XP and installing 7

Abhijeet sharma · 02 Apr 2016

Hello everyone,
So I have been using win XP for many years, 2 years back I installed win 7. Everything was fine but today when I was trying to access 4-5 year old photos the Photo Viewer is giving the error "Windows Photo Viewer can't open this picture because you don't have the correct permissions to access the file location". And some of them I can't even copy to different location.

I have tried Takeown.exe, Icacls.exe and manually changing the permissions for single photos just to verify. NOTHING WORKED. Please help me how to resolve it.

Thanks in advance

Callender · 02 Apr 2016

Try downloading this portable program:

DBC studio

Extract the files and run the executable.

Navigate to a photo. What does it show?

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murky · 02 Apr 2016

look for a free app called take ownership and download it.
It is a .reg file.
Right click and merge to registry
reboot
For any file or folder, you can now take ownership by right clicking the file and choosing takeownership

murky · 02 Apr 2016

Add "Take Ownership" to Explorer Right-Click Menu in Windows

A download is on this page. It is OK for win 7 also.

Callender · 02 Apr 2016

murky said:

Add "Take Ownership" to Explorer Right-Click Menu in Windows

A download is on this page. It is OK for win 7 also.

The problem with that is that you don't see current permissions in case you need to restore them.

Abhijeet sharma · 02 Apr 2016

Callender said:

Try downloading this portable program:

DBC studio

Extract the files and run the executable.

Navigate to a photo. What does it show?

Here is what i can see, it's showing that I already have the access. But i still can't access the image :/

Abhijeet sharma · 02 Apr 2016

murky said:

look for a free app called take ownership and download it.
It is a .reg file.
Right click and merge to registry
reboot
For any file or folder, you can now take ownership by right clicking the file and choosing takeownership

I already have the ownership, or atleast that's what it's showing. :/

Callender · 02 Apr 2016

Thanks for the screenshot. File permissions appear to be okay. Would you find out if some process is locking the folder containing the images?

You can use LockHunter to do that. Right click the folder and select the "What is locking this folder?" option.

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Abhijeet sharma · 02 Apr 2016

It says no process is locking the folder. But when I select a file it says permission issues.

Callender · 02 Apr 2016

It seems to be an admin account problem. I'm not sure that I can help with that. What do you see if you go to:

Start> Run

then type:

netplwiz

Press Enter.

Post a screenshot of users tab please.

Additionally when you open an image using Windows Photo Viewer a Temp file is created in your AppData folder.

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Maybe there's an issue with permissions for that folder especially if you took ownership of it.

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On my machine that folder has been moved to a non-standard location.

You should look here:

C:\Users\Username\AppData\Local\Temp