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

I'm not sure what the issue is! I was wondering if you had mistakenly taken ownership of your Application Data folder but asked you to look in the wrong place.

If you set folder options to show protected operating system files

Uncheck:

You should get access denied if you navigate to Application Data which is the way it should be. Is your Application Data folder showing the same?

Also what is the drive where the photos are stored? Is it a flash drive or something else?

Okay I don't know if this will work but you can try it:

Do you have another folder on the same drive that contains images that you can open? If so navigate to that folder using NTFS Permissions tool and right click then choose "Copy Security Settings"

Then navigate to the problem folder - right click and choose "Paste Security Settings"

If that doesn't work then I don't know what the problem is. Maybe other members will have ideas.

It might be interesting to see if you can open images using a different photo viewer. Here's a portable one you can test if you don't have anything else installed. It will run without installation.

Simple, easy and well designed applications by xiles

Scroll down the page to:

If you extract the files and run the program can it open the problem images?

Abhijeet sharma said:

Tried and it didn't work.
I forgot to mention one thing, don't know if it's relevant or not. The names of the files all appear green even if I uncheck the encrypt option from advanced tab access is denied for that action.

Well if those files are encrypted that is very likely to be the problem. I don't use any sort of Windows file encryption as I prefer to use third party tools for encryption.

Anyone else want to help out?

I know nothing about the encryption problem but here's what I found:

You need to use the same user account that encrypted the files to decrypt and access them.

If they came from another computer you need to get the encryption key from that machine. You will also need to know the password that was used to encrypt the files.