Need help with unlocking folders & files

[trueg4life]

Hello,

I've spent so much time with this, tryin' to figure this out and still can't... Hopefully this forum can help.

Here's the situation: I wanted to set up a password to one of my hard-drives. For some reason BitLocker didn't work or I don't think it did. So somewhere somehow I found "Encrypt" button and tried to encrypt hard drive. Well, for some weird reason I couldn't get it to lock where I could unlock it with a password. So I decided to un-encrypt it. Once I did - I wasn't able to get into my folders. I tried to go to the properties - security - permissions. It says ownder unidentified. Then I have to set myself up as a owner and I was able to get into some folders. But it seems like I have to do it with all the folders. ...My question: how to get rid of that parental control? These are my files and folders and I can't turn it off... There's this whole mess with not bein' able to recognize/find the owner and these issues... I can't even change read only option...

Please help. I really appreciate it. Thanks.

 

[trueg4life]

Update: I finally found out how to change the owner. Even though it's really confusing how Windows 7 operates in this area. ...Now, another question: how to take off the little lock icons next to every folder and file?

 

[Tepid]

Search Results for lock icons

 

[Frostmourne]

What exactly did you modify in the first place?

 

[trueg4life]

Well, like I said - first I encrypted the hard drive. Then un-encrypted it. Then I couldn't get into any of folders. It said the access is denied. Then it lead me to the security tab and there I had to change the permissions. I went to advanced and specify owner. It said owner wasn't detected, so I had to set myself as an owner and apply and then I finally got the access to each folder this way... I still have little yellow lock on every folder and file icons... Is there a way to get rid of those? (just like it used to be?)

 

[Frostmourne]

Well, like I said - first I encrypted the hard drive. Then un-encrypted it. Then I couldn't get into any of folders. It said the access is denied. Then it lead me to the security tab and there I had to change the permissions. I went to advanced and specify owner. It said owner wasn't detected, so I had to set myself as an owner and apply and then I finally got the access to each folder this way... I still have little yellow lock on every folder and file icons... Is there a way to get rid of those? (just like it used to be?)

Reinstall 7, you may have broken the ACL's and some apps may not work right in the future.

 

[trueg4life]

Reinstall 7, you may have broken the ACL's and some apps may not work right in the future.

What's ACL's?

 

[Frostmourne]

Access Control Lists, every user and resource has one and they define what can and can't access the resource. Yours may have been corrupted/changed. Freshly reformatting 7 will fix this. Just double check whenever you are changing security options.

 

[Night29m]

i have a similiar issue with the locks on the icons. i have a desktop and a laptop...both with win7. i setup a homegroup at one point then removed it...opting for sharing folders over my network. the folders are accessible...but...any new file i download into my shared folder on my desktop is not accessible from my laptop until i SHARE the new file with everyone/read or everyone/read-write. all new files downloaded are like this..having a lock on the icon. is there a way of making it so that the files i download are automatically shared like they used to be? sorry if this is covered somewhere else but i could not find it anywhere. thnx

Mike

 

[Frostmourne]

i have a similiar issue with the locks on the icons. i have a desktop and a laptop...both with win7. i setup a homegroup at one point then removed it...opting for sharing folders over my network. the folders are accessible...but...any new file i download into my shared folder on my desktop is not accessible from my laptop until i SHARE the new file with everyone/read or everyone/read-write. all new files downloaded are like this..having a lock on the icon. is there a way of making it so that the files i download are automatically shared like they used to be? sorry if this is covered somewhere else but i could not find it anywhere. thnx

Mike

Can you download into a different folder? Delete the shared folder and create another unshared folder?

 

[Night29m]

yes, i can download a file and save it to any folder i choose....but the icons still have the lock until i manually share it with everyone :/

 

[Frostmourne]

Share the original folder, reboot, then unshare it. Disconnect all laptops/pc's from the network.

 

[Night29m]

thanx, i'll give it a whirl...back in a bit to post results

 

[Night29m]

took a few days toget around to it....but all seemed fine until i re-shared the folders....all new downloads get a locked icon :/ is there any way to reset the network settings without re-installing win7 again??

 

[Night29m]

grrr.....still doing it gettin frustrated....followed the share/unshare instructions.....all is good (no locks on the icons) until i re-share the folder....then everything gets a lock :/

 

[Pusspa]

why is default not shared such a problem?

 

[Night29m]

because when i download something from the internet it saves automatically to my download folder, i would like it if it was automatically shared over my network so i can access it with my laptop without first having to manually share it with EVERYONE read/write. Not a huge deal but it used to work like that before