Comments on: Accessing the My Documents folder http://www.vistaclues.com/reader-question-accessing-the-my-documents-folder/ Windows Vista and Windows 7 Help Sun, 03 Apr 2011 23:48:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: kstampo http://www.vistaclues.com/reader-question-accessing-the-my-documents-folder/#comment-94607 kstampo Sun, 17 Oct 2010 09:57:02 +0000 http://www.vistaclues.com/reader-question-accessing-the-my-documents-folder/#comment-94607 Cheers mate! It worked like a charm!!!!! Cheers mate! It worked like a charm!!!!!

]]> By: Vale http://www.vistaclues.com/reader-question-accessing-the-my-documents-folder/#comment-90938 Vale Sun, 13 Dec 2009 09:26:35 +0000 http://www.vistaclues.com/reader-question-accessing-the-my-documents-folder/#comment-90938 Tried this 4 times, got bored, still cant access doc and settings. All changes i make come up as errors. I am the Admin, i am the only user, my files arent encrypted !! Vista is a backward step.... I am off back to XP pro. Dont mend what aint broken Mr Gates !!!!!!! Tried this 4 times, got bored, still cant access doc and settings. All changes i make come up as errors. I am the Admin, i am the only user, my files arent encrypted !!
Vista is a backward step…. I am off back to XP pro.
Dont mend what aint broken Mr Gates !!!!!!!

]]> By: Kris http://www.vistaclues.com/reader-question-accessing-the-my-documents-folder/#comment-28182 Kris Thu, 24 Apr 2008 06:50:46 +0000 http://www.vistaclues.com/reader-question-accessing-the-my-documents-folder/#comment-28182 Fixed it right away after much searching. Great article and very very very helpful!!! YAY!!!! Fixed it right away after much searching. Great article and very very very helpful!!! YAY!!!!

]]> By: devon http://www.vistaclues.com/reader-question-accessing-the-my-documents-folder/#comment-28159 devon Wed, 23 Apr 2008 17:56:22 +0000 http://www.vistaclues.com/reader-question-accessing-the-my-documents-folder/#comment-28159 Wow, great help! After my main Vista boot drive was struck by a rather sneaky trojan, I decided to make it a slave drive, and put vista on a new primary drive. To get a scan on it without activating said virus. I never did expect a slave drive to keep folder permissions to the old operating system. I was expecting the opposite. Quite a headache. Your Tip/Walkthrough allowed me to gain access to the files under Slavedrive:/user/username.. Thankyou very much. Wow, great help!

After my main Vista boot drive was struck by a rather sneaky trojan, I decided to make it a slave drive, and put vista on a new primary drive. To get a scan on it without activating said virus.

I never did expect a slave drive to keep folder permissions to the old operating system. I was expecting the opposite. Quite a headache.

Your Tip/Walkthrough allowed me to gain access to the files under Slavedrive:/user/username..

Thankyou very much.

]]> By: Gareth Wills http://www.vistaclues.com/reader-question-accessing-the-my-documents-folder/#comment-25205 Gareth Wills Wed, 20 Feb 2008 23:43:48 +0000 http://www.vistaclues.com/reader-question-accessing-the-my-documents-folder/#comment-25205 I was having the same problem of Vista denying access to unbelievable folders besides My Documents. I found at right click>Security>Advanced, permissions tab that I was listed has having full access. But I also found this insidious entry of "deny-everyone" on every one of these folders. The solution was simple: edit, remove, and click ok all the way back. But why should I have to do this and where did this entry come from? Standard Vista? I was having the same problem of Vista denying access to unbelievable folders besides My Documents. I found at right click>Security>Advanced, permissions tab that I was listed has having full access. But I also found this insidious entry of “deny-everyone” on every one of these folders. The solution was simple: edit, remove, and click ok all the way back. But why should I have to do this and where did this entry come from? Standard Vista?

]]> By: Jerry http://www.vistaclues.com/reader-question-accessing-the-my-documents-folder/#comment-22466 Jerry Thu, 10 Jan 2008 15:57:36 +0000 http://www.vistaclues.com/reader-question-accessing-the-my-documents-folder/#comment-22466 Thanks for this tip, but I still have a problem accessing what is now my Documents folder in Vista with UAC on. I have several partitions and drives, all used for different data. I moved the Documents folder to be all of F:. Downloads is H:. I cannot access either one of these drives with UAC on. I have gone through all of these steps and I still just get a access denied error. The user I am logged in with is an administrator not a regular user. UAC on, nope. UAC off, no problem. Can this have something to do with the "special folders" being redirected to an entire drive? Would this maybe be solved by creating a Documents and Downloads folder on each of the drives and just moving all data into these and redirecting to that folder? Thanks Thanks for this tip, but I still have a problem accessing what is now my Documents folder in Vista with UAC on. I have several partitions and drives, all used for different data. I moved the Documents folder to be all of F:. Downloads is H:. I cannot access either one of these drives with UAC on. I have gone through all of these steps and I still just get a access denied error. The user I am logged in with is an administrator not a regular user. UAC on, nope. UAC off, no problem. Can this have something to do with the “special folders” being redirected to an entire drive? Would this maybe be solved by creating a Documents and Downloads folder on each of the drives and just moving all data into these and redirecting to that folder?

Thanks

]]> By: stanley http://www.vistaclues.com/reader-question-accessing-the-my-documents-folder/#comment-17841 stanley Sun, 18 Nov 2007 17:36:56 +0000 http://www.vistaclues.com/reader-question-accessing-the-my-documents-folder/#comment-17841 Vista Sucks Vista Sucks

]]> By: Bart http://www.vistaclues.com/reader-question-accessing-the-my-documents-folder/#comment-16978 Bart Tue, 13 Nov 2007 18:59:58 +0000 http://www.vistaclues.com/reader-question-accessing-the-my-documents-folder/#comment-16978 This procedure fixed my problem (in MS Vista Ultimate)immediately!, Bravo!, and thank you! This procedure fixed my problem (in MS Vista Ultimate)immediately!, Bravo!, and thank you!

]]> By: Daniel http://www.vistaclues.com/reader-question-accessing-the-my-documents-folder/#comment-261 Daniel Fri, 16 Feb 2007 21:40:21 +0000 http://www.vistaclues.com/reader-question-accessing-the-my-documents-folder/#comment-261 This is a very frustrating procedure!!!! My wife's computer died so I put the hard drive in a USB enclosure to copy to the new Vista computer I bought. Every time I tried to access something, I got security popups that eventually said I couldn't do that! By the way, if you change the owner and forget to change the subitems, it looks like you're stuck with changing individual items. Fortunately I found that you can right click the folder, select Properties, select the Security tab, click the Advanced button, select the Owner tab, click the Edit button (click OK on the popup), click on the new user to be the owner and check the "Replace owner on subcontainers and objects". Finally click OK. Of course you may get more popups that require clicking OK, but this sets the owner on subitems if you forgot in the first place (yup, some of our brains have the C Nile virus). This is SOOOOO compilcated!!!! There ought to be an easier way to transfer stuff from a hard drive. You can do it the hard way so why not have a way to override the security for one session or something if you are the administrator???? Or enter the license key from the old computer, anything to make this easier for those with legitimate access. It is like we don't own our own data!!! This is a very frustrating procedure!!!! My wife’s computer died so I put the hard drive in a USB enclosure to copy to the new Vista computer I bought. Every time I tried to access something, I got security popups that eventually said I couldn’t do that!

By the way, if you change the owner and forget to change the subitems, it looks like you’re stuck with changing individual items. Fortunately I found that you can right click the folder, select Properties, select the Security tab, click the Advanced button, select the Owner tab, click the Edit button (click OK on the popup), click on the new user to be the owner and check the “Replace owner on subcontainers and objects”. Finally click OK. Of course you may get more popups that require clicking OK, but this sets the owner on subitems if you forgot in the first place (yup, some of our brains have the C Nile virus).

This is SOOOOO compilcated!!!! There ought to be an easier way to transfer stuff from a hard drive. You can do it the hard way so why not have a way to override the security for one session or something if you are the administrator???? Or enter the license key from the old computer, anything to make this easier for those with legitimate access. It is like we don’t own our own data!!!

]]> By: whut? http://www.vistaclues.com/reader-question-accessing-the-my-documents-folder/#comment-238 whut? Mon, 12 Feb 2007 20:09:52 +0000 http://www.vistaclues.com/reader-question-accessing-the-my-documents-folder/#comment-238 oddly enough, this was the FIRST thing i googled for. in so doing i still got permission denied, so i changed the entire c:\ drive to administrator as the owner if vista is gonna make it hard, i'm gonna make it easy oddly enough, this was the FIRST thing i googled for. in so doing i still got permission denied, so i changed the entire c:\ drive to administrator as the owner
if vista is gonna make it hard, i’m gonna make it easy

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