Shenan..Thanks for your reply. I have been reading some other posts on here,
and discovered how to take owenership of the folders/files while logged onto
my user account (which has adminstor privledges) by right clicking on the
individual folders or files directly, properties, security tab, "ok" at the
security message, then advanced, and then the owner tab....which oddly had me
as administrator listed as owner, (but I was unable to to anything with any
of the idividual the files in the folders). At any rate, I changed the owner
from Administrator, to myself undr my present user account, and Bingo, I have
full access to them! Since this is working fine, I am not going to bother
going back into safe mode and screw around in there again, lol. Thanks again,
and best wished for the holidys, and a Happy New Year!
Gregg
"Shenan Stanley" wrote:
> Gregg wrote:
> > Hi,
> > Thanks to those that helped me re-take ownership of my personal
> > documents folder after a system crash, and re-install of XP Pro
> > (12/20/07). Here's my problem now. I can now view my old user
> > account (was password protected on old OS), and open it, and all of
> > the folders inside of it. What I can't do, is use, or access any of
> > my old files yet. As a result, I cannot copy any of the files
> > anywhere...to my current "Documents" folder, or a jump drive, ect.
> > I will receive an "access is denied" message everytime when trying
> > to access any of the individual files (docs, media player, jpegs,
> > all of them). I did assign fulll control to myself, and a seperate
> > user account I created, while in the security tab in Safe mode ,
> > and disabled file sharing (before taking ownership). and was able
> > to now see and open all of my old folders, but unable to use any of
> > the contents therein. Do I still need to go back in safe-mode and
> > and use the security tab, then advanced, permission tab to change
> > "inherited permissions from parent to child objects", to "replace
> > permissions" (both of those slightly abbr.)? Or perhaps my problem
> > has nothing to do with that at all, and is something else entirely?
> > I have tried "enabling file sharing" again, but that did nothing to
> > help the problem either. Any suggestions or help, whould be
> > *greatly* appreciated once again. Thanks in advance all, and Happy
> > holidays to everyone.
>
> Sounds like you have seen this:
>
> How to Take Ownership of a File or Folder in Windows XP
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308421
>
> Read *carefully* - do not just skim the page and start following steps.
> There is important information there dependent on the version of Windows XP.
>
> And have eluded to the information in #4 under " To take ownership of a
> folder " - and then you change permissions so that the user you utilize
> outside of safe mode (your account) has permissions granted throughout the
> entire tree of files/folders as well - then back into normal mode to access
> them.
>
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> Shenan Stanley
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