Cannot access read-only document

[Bonnie van Bergen]

This is the message I receive when trying to open a Word or Excel Document
(not a read-only document) that was backed up from another computer's
secondary hard drive. I read on some Windows Tweak site that is was a
good idea not to keep My Documents on the C: drive, so I heeded the advice
and transfered them to my D drive. Got a new computer and restored the
documents but now can't open them. The old D drive was formatted and is
being used as a backup drive. Is there any way I can access these documents
again?

 

[Will Denny]

Hi

Please see if the following helps:

"How to take ownership of a file or folder in Windows XP"
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;308421

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Will Denny
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[HeyBub]

This is the message I receive when trying to open a Word or Excel
Document (not a read-only document) that was backed up from another
computer's secondary hard drive. I read on some Windows Tweak site
that is was a good idea not to keep My Documents on the C: drive, so
I heeded the advice and transfered them to my D drive. Got a new
computer and restored the documents but now can't open them. The old
D drive was formatted and is being used as a backup drive. Is there
any way I can access these documents again?

"Not a read-only document"? If you used a CD as the backup/restore medium,
simply putting the file on the CD MADE it a read-only file. Subsequent
copying preserves this read-only attribute.

You might want to double-check...

 

[Bonnie van Bergen]

I am feeling pretty stupid right now. I did this backup on MS Backup. I
used the Advanced Restore when restoring and didn't really pay attention to
what I was agreeing to. One of the settings was "restore Security
settings". It was checked and I left it that way. Just now I went back to
restore the files again and took notice of that option. I unchecked it and
now of course there is no problem accessing the documents. I printed out
the site you referenced and was already to do the procedure. I filed that
information away for future use if needed. Thanks for you help.

Bonnie