Re: Strange problem with System Volume Information folder

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Jose wrote:
On Nov 26, 11:43 am, John John - MVP <audetw...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Jose wrote:
On Nov 26, 12:04 am, SergioQ <ser...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I believe John John has already given you this information.
How to gain access to the System Volume Information folderhttp://support.microsoft.com/kb/309531/en-us
I could be wrong but thought I mentioned that this did not work for
me. it's the simplest method, and went no where
The calcs is not working because you need a proper example of how to
use it.
The cacls command does not "sometimes fail" -
It *does* sometimes fail! It may be infrequent but this is a known to
happen at times. I have personally seen this before and believe me I
know how to type in the command! At that time I couldn't resolve the
cacls problem, I couldn't figure out why it was failing, it wasn't on my
machine so I didn't know the history of the machine.

As for the use of the /P or /G switch it doesn't make much of any
difference, /P replaces permissions and /G appends them, for all intents
and purposes it practically does the same thing except that when
replacing permissions with the /P switch you will be asked to confirm if
the permission is already in place.

John

I'll take your word for it! If there is such a situation, it would be
something that happened prior to cause it.

As I said, it is an infrequent thing, and as you said there is no information about it on the Microsoft site. When viruses are in the picture who knows what kind of damages or bugs might be at play. I also think that playing about renaming your computer and user accounts might sometimes cause glitches, perhaps things like using the old computer name for your user account might cause glitches to happen, just a guess.


I think the OP is following the instructions for cacls literally by
typing in "User Name" which will generate the reported error.

Quite possible, he said that he tried it with the current user name, but certainly if you type in an invalid User Name the command will fail and return the exact error message! I'm sure that most of the time that is the problem but I know that in the past we have seen users who appear to be quite competent and they report that the command fails with the error message.


I created my copy/paste cacls instructions to apply to general
audiences under normal circumstance where folks are compelled to
access SVI, and reduce the chances of any misinterpretation, mistakes
or subsequent messaging, which seems to have happened.

I also include/suggest instructions on how to undo the change when
they are done.

In my opinion the Cacls command is by all means the easiest way to gain access to the SVI folder, especially if you are using XP Home which requires you to reboot to safe-mode to do it in an alternate manner.

John
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