Re: Office 2007 Docs open read only from Webdav folder

"I did copy all the files while logged on as administrator. On
the other hand, I had copied them all into the Shared Documents"
Users should have PERMISSION to access the Shared Docs directory. This
does not guarantee permission to access files in the directory
especially if the administrator put them there. Permission to read a
file is one thing, permission to modify, write to, change, etc. a file
is different.

If you think I am right about this problem, forget about attrib. The
problem apparently is not read-only access. The problem appears to be
permissions. That is who has permission to access a given file and in
what way. attrib can not change permissions.

Moving the files to a different directory will likely not change the
PERMISSIONS especially if the administrator does the moving. Changing
permissions can easily screw things up if you make a mistake if you
are not sure what you are doing.

I still think my previous suggestion#2 is the easiest for you. I do
not how many files, type of files, or anything about them. But if I
assume that your user account can access these files on your backup
media, then if the user account copies them to the new PC, then the
user should become the owner.
Delete all the old files using the administrative account.
Recopy all the old files back to the pc using the USER
account. This way, the USER should be the owner & have total
PERMISSIONS access. Administrator accounts have PERMISSION
access to everything.

Dave


On Mon, 3 Mar 2008 14:03:35 -0800 (PST), connie.mccluskey@xxxxxxxxx
wrote:

David,

Thanks for the suggestion; you may have hit the nature of the problem
as I did copy all the files while logged on as administrator. On the
other hand, I had copied them all into the Shared Documents directory,
assuming (perhaps incorrectly) that if I copied them there every user
would have read access. Could anyone follow up with further insights
on this.

Secondly, could anyone describe how to change access that user
accounts have. I've already used ATTRIB to turn off the read only
attribute for all files in the Shared Documents directory and that
hasn't helped. It sounds like there's some other arcane trick that I
don't know about yet.

As to the second suggestion, am I right in thinking that moving all
the files as a block to the appropriate USER directory would solve my
problem just as well?

Thanks much for the help thus far. Steve McCluskey

On Mar 1, 11:57 am, David wrote:
My best guess is that the problem has nothing to do withreadonly
access oroffice2007.

I think the problem may be because you may have copied the old files
to the new pc while logged in as administrator. This likely made the
administrator the "owner" of the files. User accounts likely will
have no access orreadaccess (no permission to change the file). Note
that this is different from theread-onlyyou refer to.

If I am right, there are several possible solutions.
1. Go through the directories of old files and change the access user
accounts are allowed. This is easier if there is a single parent
directory for all old files. Then (I think), you should be able to
change the user access in the single parent directory & let the new
permissions propogate down through the directory tree.
2. Maybe easier. Delete all the old files using the administrative
account. Recopy all the old files back to the pc using the USER
account. This way, the USER should be the owner & have total access.
Administrator accounts have access to everything.

I hope this is helpful. I am not a MVP, so my knowledge is limited.

.

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