Just installed Vista Ultimate on my box. Had the Vista Beta on there before. Used Windows Easy Transfer to get stuff off of the computer and store the data in a file on the network. Installed Vista and used Windows Easy Transfer to put everything back on the computer. That seemed to work quite well.
The problem is now when I try to go to My Documents, I get this:
C:\Users\Administrator\My Documents is not accessible. Access is denied.
I am Administrator. Not only that, I am the Domain Administrator. Why do I not have access? Is this a SID issue? If so, why didn't the Easy Transfer utility take that into consideration? I tried changing permissions but that didn't work. Got a string of error messages saying "Access is denied." Any ideas how to override/get past this?
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The "My Documents" folder in your Vista User folder is Junction for compatibility with older programs it points to "Documents".
It is one of many junctions in Vista for compatibility and like the rest that has a deny on listing the folder contents. It has the deny so people don't use it but older programs can access stuff in it.
So the solution here is to just ignore the "My Documents" junction and use the "Documents" folder instead.
Justin
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by: twstechservPosted on 2007-02-23 at 21:39:46ID: 18601045
You might be able to resolve the problem by taking ownership of the folder.
To take ownership of a folder
1. Right-click the folder that you want to take ownership of, and then click Properties.
2. Click the Security tab, click Advanced, and then click the Owner tab.
3. Click Edit. Administrator permission required If you are prompted for an administrator password or confirmation, type the password or provide confirmation.
4. Click the name of the person you want to give ownership to.
5. If you want that person to be the owner of files and subfolders in this folder, select the Replace owner on subcontainers and objects check box.
6. Click OK.
Good luck,
twstechserv