Ownership of App Data Folder

[Fred S *****]

I am trying to help with a Vista Laptop where we are trying to rename a
folder located in the users APP DATA folder.

I've used the utility by Doug Knox (?) to take ownership and it shows
full rights under the "Security" tab.

Cannot rename a folder in the "Roaming" section and I need to do that to
test a backup file restore. We keep getting "You need permission to do
this..."

Can anyone help?
Thanks, Fred

 

[Dave]

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/112795-context-menu-take-ownership.html

 

[Rick Rogers]

Hi,

That's a protected system folder and you won't be able to change the name of
any directory within it.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

 

[Fred S *****]

Thanks Dave, but the folders already show up as having ownership of the
user (who is also the administrator).

The problem is that despite having ownership, we cannot rename any
folders in App Data (Local, LocalLow, Roaming).

Are we missing something?

Fred

 

[Fred S *****]

Rick,

I used the same tool to set ownership on my laptop and I can do that on
my LT.

Actually, I'm not trying to rename the App Data folder itself, but
rather a folder created by a financial program. We are testing a backup
system where we are going to restore data to that folder but I always
like to simply rename the original folder to something else, then do the
restore of the data to show the user that his data matches what was
there before.

I can do it on my LT but not on his.

Fred

 

[Richard Urban]

Your app is not Vista compliant. User data should never be stored where your
app is putting it.

 

[Fred S *****]

Richard,

It's probably not "real" user data but the folder name is from the
program and it contains subfolders that change when you look at the
dates of the files.

I understand that user files should go where the Vista boys want but
there are many programs that store data as they do and this program is
running fine on Vista which is the thing we were worried about.

To be honest with you, I don't know if that stuff is really "user" data
but since the date changes with usage and time, I want that stuff backed
up. I have not tried to restore those folders and would like to simply
restore the file to compare it to what is already there.

My frustration is that after I took ownership on my laptop I was and
continue to be able to alter/modify/rename any folder in App Data yet on
the machine we are working on we hit the wall.

I plan on trying it in SafeMode to see if there is a way to do this on
this machine.

As another example, FireFox stores the users profile folder there and
the bookmarks files are there and those are data files as far as I'm
concerned and I have had to restore bookmarks on occasion.

Fred