Why can't I read the "System Volumn Information?

[Elliott]

It's driving me crazy. I can only open the SVI
directory on volume "C" which is fat32. The
other volumes are on ntfs formatted volumes.
I show all disk being monitored. When I
try to open the directory nothing happens.
the Properties shows 0 data for size of dir and
number of files except on C:.

I can create and restore to checkpoints ok. The
attributes are available to administrator.
If anyone knows why I can't open the directory
please let me know. Thanks/

Elliott in New Jersey

 

[Alex Nichol]

It's driving me crazy. I can only open the SVI
directory on volume "C" which is fat32. The
other volumes are on ntfs formatted volumes.
I show all disk being monitored. When I
try to open the directory nothing happens.
the Properties shows 0 data for size of dir and
number of files except on C:.

I can create and restore to checkpoints ok.

you may not be monitoring the other drives in System Restore, or more
likely you are, but they contain only data files which are not SR's
concern, so it has put nothing in the folders there

Leave the content of SVI alone unless you want to clean up SR and start
over: then once you have disabled it and rebooted, empty the folders
before starting it up again

 

[Elliott]

you may not be monitoring the other drives in System Restore, or more
likely you are, but they contain only data files which are not SR's
concern, so it has put nothing in the folders there

Leave the content of SVI alone unless you want to clean up SR and start
over: then once you have disabled it and rebooted, empty the folders
before starting it up again

Thanks Alex for the response. It's just odd that windows can lock
out a directory or file from all except a specific process. I thought
only Unix (Linux) operating systems had that level of security.
The owner of the process was also allowed to access the file.

Elliott in New Jersey

 

[David Candy]

Admins don't have permission to open it. Give yourself permission (you do have that permission).

 

[Alex Nichol]

Thanks Alex for the response. It's just odd that windows can lock
out a directory or file from all except a specific process. I thought
only Unix (Linux) operating systems had that level of security.
The owner of the process was also allowed to access the file.

On an NTFS volume, with 'Simple file sharing' turned off there are a lot
of restrictions possible (see the Properties - Security tab of a
folder). In particular it is possible to give no access to anyone but
SYSTEM (trouble can arise if that does not have 'Full control'
everywhere'. Normally you would expect Administrators to have at least
read access - though it is necessary to have Folder Options - View set
to show protected mode files if you want to look in this folder