Moved Favorites - access denied

[Gordon]

Vista Home Premium.
I moved my Favorites folder using Properties-Location into my User folder on
the data drive - got "access denied" when trying to save a URL.
Tried this command as an administrator in E:\Users\Gordon\:
icacls favorites /setintegritylevel (OI)(CI)low

got he error "can't find folder".

Any thoughts?

 

[Mamamegs [MS MVP]]

Gordon laid this down on his screen :

Vista Home Premium.
I moved my Favorites folder using Properties-Location into my User
folder on the data drive - got "access denied" when trying to save a
URL.
Tried this command as an administrator in E:\Users\Gordon\:
icacls favorites /setintegritylevel (OI)(CI)low

got he error "can't find folder".

Any thoughts?

Look here for the correct procedure:
http://vistabits.info/unable_to_add_favorites.htm

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Mamamegs.
Microsoft MVP Windows Desktop Experience

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[Gordon]

Look here for the correct procedure:
http://vistabits.info/unable_to_add_favorites.htm

That's exactly what I did - the only difference being that I ran cmd as my
User as I am an administrator on the computer.
Running cmd as "administrator" I get exactly the same error:
The system cannot find the file specified.
Successfully processed 0 files; Failed processing 1 files

 

[Gordon]

That's exactly what I did - the only difference being that I ran cmd as
my User as I am an administrator on the computer.
Running cmd as "administrator" I get exactly the same error:
The system cannot find the file specified.
Successfully processed 0 files; Failed processing 1 files

In fact it's just worked - the instructions on that page are ambiguous - the
command should be executed in the folder which CONTAINS the favorites
folder - the page says "navigate to your favorites folder" which in my book
says go INTO your favorites folder...

 

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

Yes. The instructions on that page are incorrect!

Others:

See Jimmy Brush's site for instructions. He IS the original owner of that tip:

When attempting to add a favorite in Internet Explorer you receive an "Unspecified Error":
http://www.jimmah.com/vista/Applications/ie_cant_add_favorites.aspx

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Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User]
Windows® Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com
Winhelponline.com blog http://www.winhelponline.com/blog

That's exactly what I did - the only difference being that I ran cmd as
my User as I am an administrator on the computer.
Running cmd as "administrator" I get exactly the same error:
The system cannot find the file specified.
Successfully processed 0 files; Failed processing 1 files

In fact it's just worked - the instructions on that page are ambiguous - the
command should be executed in the folder which CONTAINS the favorites
folder - the page says "navigate to your favorites folder" which in my book
says go INTO your favorites folder...

 

[Mamamegs [MS MVP]]

Ramesh, MS-MVP has brought this to us :

Yes. The instructions on that page are incorrect!

Thanks for pointing that out, it's been corrected.

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Mamamegs.
Microsoft MVP Windows Desktop Experience

Problemen met Windows Vista? www.vistabits.nl

Windows Vista Problems? www.vistabits.info

 

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

Thanks! I'd also appreciate if the source is credited.

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Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User]
Windows® Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com
Winhelponline.com blog http://www.winhelponline.com/blog

Yes. The instructions on that page are incorrect!

Thanks for pointing that out, it's been corrected.

--
Mamamegs.
Microsoft MVP Windows Desktop Experience

Problemen met Windows Vista? www.vistabits.nl

Windows Vista Problems? www.vistabits.info

 

[Don Varnau]

Original thread:
http://groups.google.com/group/micr...b5825f9c309/3376b6387312d2d8#3376b6387312d2d8

What causes this to happen?

Integrity levels.
See
http://www.winhelponline.com/blog/u...-adding-a-link-to-favorites-in-windows-vista/

Don
[MS MVP- IE]