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May 3, 2009, 03:28 AM
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Sleep Deprived Ant
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File Permission Woes
Can I cuss? Okay, I know better than to try. Vista has been ticking me off.
I am dual booting with XP and had XP installed before Vista. By the way, I have Vista Ultimate 32-bit. Now, all my files are in my XP partition and I have to access them frequently to get my Word documents to work on whenever I'm not gaming, and it just does not let me access them. I have to go to each individual file and painstaikingly change each of their permissions so I can access them. To put this into perspective, I have about 10 Word documents that I want to change the permissions of. Combine that with about 2000 images that I sift through (I won't go into what those images are of, but you can do some deductive reasoning: They're not for any constructive purpose), and you get a bunch of files that I cannot possibly change individual permissions of. I've tried everything in my power. Any idea on how to fix this thing before I decide to throw my computer out the window? I'd hate to do that, but my annoyance has gotten to that point.
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May 3, 2009, 11:18 AM
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Re: File Permission Woes
 I know exactly what you are talking about as I had the same problem. The answer is in a thread I started some time ago asking for a cure, just like you are doing. It's going to take a little time to find it. It's a little goodie that allows you to 'take control' of files or entire folders so that you can get around that issue. I'll post it as soon as I can.AH HA! Didn't take as long as I thought it would Look at post #8 in this thread from exactly 1 year ago: http://www.hardwareheaven.com/windows-...rol-vista.html stormy13 had the answer for me, and it works great.
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May 3, 2009, 01:11 PM
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Re: File Permission Woes
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Hah, already tried that. I found a solution, I think... I have to change the permissions of large folders like "My Documents" one at a time, but it fixes the problem.
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May 3, 2009, 02:19 PM
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Re: File Permission Woes
Well the take ownership feature does work great. Especially for taking over OLD windows installs (my old betas for Win7) and deleting them.
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May 3, 2009, 04:12 PM
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Re: File Permission Woes
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May 3, 2009, 04:36 PM
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Re: File Permission Woes
I noticed that disabling UAC (don't know if you've done this yet) takes a lot of the headache out of taking ownership.
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May 3, 2009, 04:41 PM
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Re: File Permission Woes
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Yeah, tried that one too. The only thing that did is it stopped bugging me when I opened a file, but the permission problems were still the same.
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May 3, 2009, 05:16 PM
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Re: File Permission Woes
that's really odd. I remember having that problem back when I was still dual booting Vista/XP but it went away after I moved (copied everything over) and reformatted the drive. did they change the NTFS format in vista possibly... (Just wondering aloud)
It definitely can be frustrating when trying to free up space. but thats when I just "kick the computer" or threaten it with magnets.
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