RE: DELETING FILES

This one's a problem that I'm seeing more and more. It's due to the
different security settings on the NTFS file system. There's several ways to
gain the necessary permissions on these files.

1) Use a free NTFS to DOS reader to copy the files to a FAT32 file system.
This will effectively strip the various permissions from the files.
2) Use a Live Linux distro - such as Knoppix - to copy the files elsewhere.
3) Take ownership of the files/folders in question - so that you can
manipulate them as yours. This method works, but it's very quirky at times -
it'll require different tactics on different folders and files.

Here's some articles on how to do it: Thes documents all deal with
permissions, ownership, and access denied errors.

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=811151
http://www.practicallynetworked.com/sharing/xp_filesharing/index.htm
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;q304040&ID=KB;EN-US;q304040
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;281248
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=308418
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;308421

Again, please be aware that the changing of these settings is a bit flakey -
and
may reuire repeated attempts on the folder and sub-folders to get it to work.

Good luck - this can be frustrating!


"Kent Davis" wrote:

> My OS is Windows XP home edition. I have administrator privilages. There
> have been a number of occasions lately where I have moved files into My
> Documents. After doing so I have not been able to open the file as "access
> is denied". Additionally, there are now a number of files which, when I have
> tried to delete them, I have received the error message "access is denied -
> make sure that the disk is not full or write-protected". I went to the Help
> Centre and have reveiwed the information there but none of the suggested
> solutions will work. More interestingly, when I go to folder attributes and
> look at the permissions many are set at "Read Only". When I try to change
> the permissions they are not accepted.
> --
> Kent
.

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