Re: Error "The system cannot find the file specified" on files


"KnightN" <KnightN@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I've encountered a bizarre problem in trying to perform a data migration
for
one of my customers. I'm trying to copy files from an old Windows 2000
Server SP4 domain controller to a new Windows 2003 R2 SP2 domain
controller.

On some files within the directories I cannot copy or otherwise modify
them
in any way. My account is a member of the Domain Admins group (this group
was renamed) and therefore is a member of the built-in Administrators
group.
Again, both of these servers are domain controllers.

I have tried a number of different way to take ownership of the folders
and
files in the containing folders using icacls and using Windows Explorer
both
on the Windows 2000 and 2003 servers but to no avail. What I mean is that
I
have tried pushing down the owner and resetting the permissions down the
tree
but it hasn't worked (in the case of the files that I am referring to).

I have also tried going directly to the files in question and, using both
command line utilities and GUI tools, tried to set permissions. Command
line
utilities return the "...cannot find the file specified" error and the
Security tab in Windows Explorer doesn't appear.

Other files in the directories are fine and I can properly administer
them.
I know that, before I got involved, permissions were set too loosely on
some
file shares so that users themselves could modify the permissions. I
suspect
they changed these items in some cases so that only one user could access
the
file taking away the default permissions for the Administrators as well.
I
can't say this for certain in all cases however.

Any ideas?

This could happen if the combined length of path+file name is greater
than 255 characters. Use subst.exe or create a share to reduce the
effective length, or tighten your excessively long folder names.


.

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