access denied

[ted medin]

Go to my userid & click on documents. Then click on my pictures & get access
denied. What am I missing? TIA

 

[Michael Walraven]

userid\documents\pictures is not a folder it is a 'junction point' your
pictures are located in
userid\pictures

Junction points area there for legacy programs to get them to the correct
place.
Turn off showing system and hidden files and you won't be bothered with
seeing them.

Michael

 

[Gordon]

userid\documents\pictures is not a folder it is a 'junction point' your
pictures are located in

Hmmm - not necessarily. I have a folder userid\documents\pictures which IS a
proper folder....

 

[Johnny Fosse]

userid\documents\pictures is not a folder it is a 'junction point'

You screwed that one up. It's is a folder.

 

[Rick Rogers]

Hi Gordon,

If you have a "pictures" folder in your documents folder, then it's
user-created or was created by software you installed. The default in Vista
is C:\Users\<user>\Pictures, not C:\Users\<user>\Documents\Pictures.

In fact, the folder that the OP is likely seeing is the "My Pictures"
junction point and Michael is correct in his assessment of the problem.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

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

 

[Gordon]

Hi Gordon,

If you have a "pictures" folder in your documents folder, then it's
user-created or was created by software you installed. The default in
Vista is C:\Users\<user>\Pictures, not C:\Users\<user>\Documents\Pictures.

In fact, the folder that the OP is likely seeing is the "My Pictures"
junction point and Michael is correct in his assessment of the problem.

I did wonder whether the OP had missed the "My" off the name.....

 

[Michael Walraven]

It's tough trying to figure out a posters 'My Pictures' vs the phrase my
'Pictures'. In this case I went with the error he was having.
Yes you can have an ordinary folder c:\users\userid\documents\pictures but
you would probably (unless you worked hard at getting rid of it) the system
folder c\users\userid\Pictures which is generally where the system will
think you should be storing pictures.

Michael

 

[Michael Walraven]

Yup,
bad typing: should have said userid\documents\my pictures is not a folder it
is a 'junction point'
Michael

 

[ted medin]

Ok u are correct I have system & hidden files on. Tnx