I recently upgraded my machine from XP Pro to Vista Ultimate. After about a
week of constant slogging my way through issue after issue it appeared that
I finally had everything cleared up and it was working fine. That may not
be the case after all...

I have always used an external USB hard drive for some of my more sensitive
files, turning the drive on only when I needed to access them. Yesterday
was the first time that I've needed to do that since upgrading. After Vista
detected and installed the drive everything showed up and I was able to open
the Excel file just fine. However, when I tried to save the changes that I
made it told me "You don't have permission to save to that location. Please
check with your administrator". I am the only user on the machine and I am
the administrator.

It gave me the option of saving to "Documents" which saves it to my system
hard drive , which I don't want to do. However, I can save it there and
then move the file to the USB drive and that works ok.

Any idea why it won't let me save to the USB drive and what I need to do to
enable saving?

Thanks in advance,

Howard

Try taking ownership of the directory on the external drive where you want
to save the file.


Step by step instruction on how to take ownership of a folder



Run CMD (as administrator) and type: takeown [path] /f <filename or folder>

OR

- Right-click the file/folder you want to own, click properties

- Click Security Tab

- Click Advanced

- Click the Owner Tab

- Click Edit

- Select the Administrators group from the list

- Click OK

- Click OK

- Click OK

You have now taken 'Ownership' of the file and you can close the property

Windows



Now again



1) Right-click on the file

2) Select Properties

3) Go to the Security tab again, click the Advanced button

4) Now Press Edit, then double-click 'Administrators' in the list and tick

the 'allow' box for 'Full control'



You have now taken 'Full control' of file


--
Leo

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability
to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable
for their apparent disinclination to do so.




"Howard Woodard" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:9C4A28ED-BBFA-49E4-9265-(E-Mail Removed)...
>I recently upgraded my machine from XP Pro to Vista Ultimate. After about
>a week of constant slogging my way through issue after issue it appeared
>that I finally had everything cleared up and it was working fine. That may
>not be the case after all...
>
> I have always used an external USB hard drive for some of my more
> sensitive files, turning the drive on only when I needed to access them.
> Yesterday was the first time that I've needed to do that since upgrading.
> After Vista detected and installed the drive everything showed up and I
> was able to open the Excel file just fine. However, when I tried to save
> the changes that I made it told me "You don't have permission to save to
> that location. Please check with your administrator". I am the only user
> on the machine and I am the administrator.
>
> It gave me the option of saving to "Documents" which saves it to my system
> hard drive , which I don't want to do. However, I can save it there and
> then move the file to the USB drive and that works ok.
>
> Any idea why it won't let me save to the USB drive and what I need to do
> to enable saving?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Howard
>
>
>