Access/Permissions 2nd HDD

[Guest Rod]

Hi

 

I keep all my applications on C Drive and all my documents and music etc on

D Drive. I am the sole user of my PC so only have my name and Password as

individual and Administrator.

 

Today, somehow, I could not access files or folders on my D Drive.

 

I have to, on each Folder AND then every FILE, right

click/properties/security, reassign "User/Rod" as the Owner of the Folder,

OK , then Security/Permissions/edit, give full access/Apply/OK to every

folder AND every individual file in every folder.

 

I have 100 or so Folders and 10,000's of files.

 

IS there a way I can simply get back permissions to view, edit, open, save

folders/files en masse? Driving me to despair to have to do the above

process on every file and folder. It will take days.

 

Rgds

Rod

[Guest Malke]

Rod wrote:

<span style="color:blue">

> Hi

>

> I keep all my applications on C Drive and all my documents and music etc

> on D Drive. I am the sole user of my PC so only have my name and Password

> as individual and Administrator.

>

> Today, somehow, I could not access files or folders on my D Drive.

>

> I have to, on each Folder AND then every FILE, right

> click/properties/security, reassign "User/Rod" as the Owner of the

> Folder, OK , then Security/Permissions/edit, give full access/Apply/OK to

> every folder AND every individual file in every folder.

>

> I have 100 or so Folders and 10,000's of files.

>

> IS there a way I can simply get back permissions to view, edit, open, save

> folders/files en masse? Driving me to despair to have to do the above

> process on every file and folder. It will take days.</span>

 

A. You might want to do a System Restore to when things worked. If the

System Restore doesn't fix the glitch...

 

B. To take ownership of a drive - Start Orb>Search Box>type: cmd

When cmd appears in Results above, right-click it and choose "Run as

administrator" [OK]. Now you will have the elevated command prompt. At the

command prompt type:

 

TAKEOWN /F D:\ /R /D [enter]

 

Then exit the command prompt.

 

That should give ownership of all files and folders on D: to the current

user. To give ownership to the Administrators group instead of the current

user, add /A.

 

Malke

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[Guest BGK]

I had the same issue after an update on April 8. Last evening I did a

restore back to before that update and it fixed my problem.

 

 

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BGK