"Access Denied" after Tape Restore

[dwa]

We did a test restore from a backup tape and now find that we cannot delete
*some* of the files that were restored off the tape. The files in
question are all in "temp" directories underneath visual source safe
archives, so it would appear that some kind of exclusivity bit got copied
onto the tape, then restored onto the other disk, so the system still thinks
the file is in use?

How does one delete these files? It seems to make no difference if one is
logged in as the administrator, nor does "attrib -r *.*" work.

-- dwa

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

We did a test restore from a backup tape and now find that we cannot
delete *some* of the files that were restored off the tape. The
files in question are all in "temp" directories underneath visual
source safe archives, so it would appear that some kind of
exclusivity bit got copied onto the tape, then restored onto the
other disk, so the system still thinks the file is in use?

How does one delete these files? It seems to make no difference if
one is logged in as the administrator, nor does "attrib -r *.*" work.

What backup software, and did your job specify anything about security?
Attrib won't do anything - this isn't about files being marked read-only.
Try to take ownership of the folders/subfolders as "Administrators" - push
the changes down through the subfolders - then check/change the NTFS
permissions.