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Is moving My Documents safe?
Hi, I want to move My Documents folder to another partition (D:\) but I'm wondering if I do will other users on the computer now be able to access the contents?
Is moving My Documents safe?
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Yes other users will be able to read, write and change your files unless you have protected. I protect my work by placing them on a password protected portable hard disk. Do you have Windows 7 Ultimate?
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Windows 7 Professional. So as it is only I can access the files but as soon as I move them they are no longer protected by Windows, is that right?
Can I not right-click and change security settings?
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I was under the impression that if you move the folder location properly, the permissions will follow it.
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Yes you can on the hdd or the files to prevent other users opening them.
If you were on Ultimate you could encrypt the partition using Bitlocker.
Try this TrueCrypt - Free Open-Source On-The-Fly Disk Encryption Software for Windows 7/Vista/XP, Mac OS X and Linux
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That depends where and if your moving the file, it may be changed to a child folder (which doesn't usually inherit the files permission properties) not a parent folder if the other location has different permissions and on partition D:/ the other partition it is most likely to change its permissions
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Everything I'm reading says that when you redirect the folder properly, the permissions go along with it.
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User Folders - Change Default Location
How to do it.
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OK I'm a bit confused now. Is this the proper way to change location:
Right-click My Document -> Properties -> Location?
I've moved it from "C:\Users\DoubleGlazed\Documents" to "D:\Users\DoubleGlazed\Documents" and noticed that the Security tab has Read, Write and Execute permissions for Users group which wasn't there before.
So the question is if i set the permissions correctly (remove Users group) is this only applicable to Windows 7 or will the permissions hold true for any OS trying to access the drive?
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For any Windows edition it applies.
Windows 7 Take Ownership & Grant Permissions to Access Files & Folder
You need to take ownership *username*, keep the group users and give them no rights and give you all the rights for the file. :)
The best way to completely transfer a file with all properties is /xcopy in cmd. But dragging and dropping works the same but you have to change the owners and security information
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