Help out an idiot with permission settings and corruption

[Charlie Foster]

I hope someone out there can help me with a permission settings problem. I,
probably for the wrong reasons, was working with the propagation of
permissions set on the "E" drive (data only), when I accidently (the idiot
part) hit the cancel button when movimg the mouse away. I got a dialog box
stating something to the effect that "stopping the propagation of permission
settings leads to an inconsistant state... correct the change to achieve a
consistant state." Well, I do have an inconsistant state, as I can only
access part of this drive from a network. How do you "correct" this change
of settings as I had no option to cancel out from the original cancel
operation, I had to click the OK button. I was doing this on the "E" drive
as a test as I was tired of the "access denied" while trying to gain access
to the "C" drive from a networked computer. I know with XP, you can gain
access to the "C" drive from a network with the exception of Docs &
Settings, Program Files and Windows folders. With Vista the entire "C"
drive is not accessable (probably by design), but by replacing inheritable
permissions, I thought I could gain some access to the "C" drive as I could
with XP by changing these permission sets. Also, why do files or update
program files sent accross a network from a Vista machine reach the
destination computer corrupted or won't work (will get the "sorry for any
inconvenience...but must close" message). I tried this with serveral files,
all with the same result. If I copy the same file from the Vista machine
via a flash drive and load on the destination machine, the file will work
perfectly. Is this also by design, or maybe a bug. Any help greatly
appreciated.

Charlie

 

[katy]

Hi Charlie, I don't know about why files become corrupted moving through the
network, could have something to do with firewall or file sharing? but with
regard to going back in time from the accidental cancel, can you use system
restore to go an earlier known good configuration? either within vista or
in safe mode?
Hitting escape at the time you had to click OK may have been another option
but that was then, this is now. Try System Restore if possible.

 

[Charlie Foster]

Katy, Thanks for the reply, but I should have mentioned that I tried system
restore with several restore points, but would not restore to previous
state. I get a message stating "an error occured... no changes have been
made to your files". The "C" drive is ok, it's just the "E" drive with the
problem. I guess I could move the data off the drive, reformat , and
restore data. It's about 200 gigs of data and would have to span across
several drives I have due to the size. I want to avoid doing that as it
will be time consuming, and want to learn from my mistake on how to correct,
if possible.

Charlie

 

[Neil Harley]

I hope someone out there can help me with a permission settings
problem.

You could try taking ownership of the E:\ and then reassigning permissions
choosing to replace existing permissoins. Yesterday I had a directory on my
USB drive into which I could add and delete files but could not delete the
directory itself. Each time I tried I was told I needed permissions even
though I was listed as having full control.

I ended up going to the root (W:\) and taking replacing the ownership and
permissions on all sub directories and files. Once done I could delete the
directory I wanted to delete.

Right Click E:\
Properties
Security
Owner
Edit
Change to your username and Apply

(On the same Security tab)
Advanced
Permissions
Edit
Make sure the permissions you want are listed and then check the 'Replace
all existing inheritable ......' then click Apply.

Let that run through and see if you have the permissions you're after.

 

[Charlie Foster]

Thanks for the reply, I tried as you suggested and still get the same error
messages. Interestingly enough, the first item that cannot apply security
settings looks to be a registry value, then followed by a file type. Also,
now every time I boot-up, I get a message :the recycle bin for E/ is
corrupted, do you want to empty the bin for this drive" I guess I have more
of a mess than I think. Maybe best solution is to go the long way and
remove the data, defrag-reformat-restore data and let that solve the
problem.

 

[Don]

Thanks for the reply, I tried as you suggested and still get the same
error messages. Interestingly enough, the first item that cannot apply
security settings looks to be a registry value, then followed by a file
type. Also, now every time I boot-up, I get a message :the recycle bin
for E/ is corrupted, do you want to empty the bin for this drive" I
guess I have more of a mess than I think. Maybe best solution is to go
the long way and remove the data, defrag-reformat-restore data and let
that solve the problem.

Maybe try chkdisk first?