invalid file names

Check the file permissions. My guess is that the permissions are set
to the user that created the files and no one else.

>From the command line you can use the 'CALCS' commeand to change the
permissions. I had to use this when a files permissions became
corrupt. It was the only way I could regain access to the file. I
think you will need to have Admin privledges to run the command on
other users files.

- Ryan


CACLS - Displays or modifies access control lists (ACLs) of files.

Steven wrote:
> don't know if this is the right group for this but here goes. I have a win2k
> std edition member server basically it is just a file and print server. i
> have 1 user that has been storing files for years (these files are attorney
> coresponses) he has been storing them with invalid file names. i can not copy
> them, rename them move them or any other them with them (does that make
> sense?) Anyway i need to do something with these files because i am trying to
> use a program to copy all files from that server to a stand by server for
> protection but the program keeps bombing out on me because of these files.
> I've tried going to a command prompt i break down into the structure see the
> files try to rename them and it tells me can not find the files specified. I
> have even tried excluding these files from the copy but for some reason it
> still bombs.
> Anybody got a solution to the problem I'm having?
>
> TIA