Thanks gregrocker! I found a workaround now also... What I did was to open each folder and select all the MP files as a group and right click and select Share With - Homegroup (read/write). Now I can play the files and Win Media Player has imported them into the Media Player Library too.
Should I still do the Take Ownership thing as per your link then, or will this be OK?
Hi Greg -
You should not have to access files on the same computer by the same User by sharing them with Homegroup.
I'd take ownership of the folders starting with E itself, then if necessary the folder group or individual files. Use the shortcut placed on rightclick context menu to save time.
You should be able to Select All or highlight them in groups with the mouse to Take Ownership as a group if that's necessary.
OK, I have installed the right click Take Ownership menu. Seems to do the trick. Now I have gone back and changed the share option ion each folder (album) to Dont Share and I have a little padlock icon on each folder. Seems to be working fine though and Media Player is playing the MP3's. I never had the lock icon on the folders before though - it this an issue I need to be concerned about or can I ignore it?
Add the "Everyone" group with full control to the disk that hosts the .mp3
The lock simply means they are not shared with homegroup. If you don't have a Homegroup then it's not a concern.
Great - thanks guys - appreciate the help!
Cheers for now
Yup - all seems OK - I can access all MP3's and Windows Media Player can import them into the database OK too. At least I did not need to copy everything again - that would have been FUN...
I still have the padlock folder on all folders in my music main folder but I don't care too much about that as long as I can have full access. The PC is not networked to others.
I've always had this problem since owning ext HDD.
To be safe (and not knowing better still), whenever I do a re-install or even a system-restore, I'd always disconnect them from the machine, even the second internal HHD.
In my stumbling around with this, I found out that all my previous "full ownership and full-admin-user permissions" had remained in every single files. No torrents could ever finish writing (I always have some new "linux" downloading/seeding), otherwise, I would have never known.
Taking ownership back did not work until I had booted from a liveCD (UBCD for windows, Ubuntu liveCD, openSUSE live, or any) With this kind of boot, I can see every hidden folder. Useless trash bin; I delete that. Useless recovery folder; I delete that too. All I keep is MY FILES in those HDDs.
After this clean-up, I re-boot in SAFE MODE. I go down in system32 folder and look for cmd.exe (NO SHORT-CUT for meI then enter this command and wait for cmd to give me back ownership of those few 3TBs (an hour sometimes more) (you don't wanna know how long it takes to do this on a few 100GBs, files by files, in my first noobee ways, and I won't tell you either
The command;
takeown /f G:\,H:\,J:\,K:\ /r /d y && icacls G:\,H:\,J:\,K:\ /grant username:F /t
or one HDD at atime;
takeown /f G:\ /r /d y && icacls G:\ /grant username:F /t
It also helps dumping old-prefetch data when booting back, or simply let time and a few cold boot do it. (cold boot means shut-off, and then start-up. Not re-start or re-boot)
You can google the command to verify (yes google takes it to 100s of pages
Problem if be, is always related to the trash bin, but at least my files are free.
Also, I did the error of moving all my files from the older smaller HDD to the newer bigger once. That had moved also the trash bin. Never again. Folder option > show all system files. That way, I move only my files. The old trash bin and other stuff are reformated.
(moving files like this save me a defrag also, and almost better)
It's my PC. But most people have forgotten what that means: "Personal Computer", not a "Paralysis Chooser" or a "Persistent Chaperone"
"Peace Cheers"
Last edited by Ghis1964; 29 Mar 2011 at 20:49.
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