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file permissions
good day to all, I have a 3 tb external hard drive that seems to alter itself. the problem is that most of my music files [49705 files] have had the permissions changed and I have to take ownership of the file one by one before I can move or play it. I can not ''load'' into windows media player either......does anyone know how I can ''batch file'' this change????? all the other files, movies and pictures remain unaffected...seems that only mp3 files are affected, not wma. the restore function will not work because it does not back up external drives. I use this drive for media only storage. I am set up on a 4 cpu home network and I do have a vpn in use. all scans of the drive come up negative for any virus, Trojan, etc. it has taken me 10 years to amass this collection of music. I do not know exactly how or when this took place. my best guess is sometime this month based on the last played date in the media player. sorry for the lengthy request, more detail = better results. thank you....in less than 24 hrs, ALL the files are now ''access denied''....I have sent an email to western digital for help...any one going to respond???????
Last edited by dsimmers3; 30 Aug 2013 at 00:46. Reason: system changes