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Screwed Permissions/Sharing...help PLEASE
Hi
two separate, but inter-related stories. 1. A few months ago we had a visitor stay from Europe (I am in Perth, Australia) so I decided to 'hide' my files (kept on a separate D drive) so that IF he wanted to use my PC he wouldn't see them. 2. Almost at the same time I decided to partition my C drive into 2 separate drives (creating a drive I named "W", and installed Windows 7 onto W. That left me with a C drive (Vista), a D Drive (files and I-tunes) and W drive (Win 7). Of course I screwed up the settings and permissions...now I - as the only user of this PC - cannot see my own I-Tunes folders and songs on D drive when I am using Win7, and when using Vista cannot access my other files (Word and Excel files predominately) on the D drive . And when using ANY program on my Vista HDD, I have to run them as administrator. This I have done by setting permissions (from within Win7) to have "All Authenticated Users" be able to use my files on D Drive (and I HAD to do this to every folder on D Drive and EVERY file in these folders!). I am thinking that, when using Vista, I have to copy all I-tunes files FROM the D Drive and into the Public Shared folder on my C Drive and likewise, when I boot to my Win7 o/s, I have to copy all files (Word, Excel etc) from D Drive to the Public shared folder in the W Drive. Then FROM Win7 I can see the files in the public shared folder on W drive AND the I-tunes stuff in C Drive's Public Shared folder, and likewise when using Vista on C Drive I can see and use I-tunes stuff on the C Drive and all my other files on W Drive's Public Shared folder. (HAVING JUST TRIED THIS _ IT DID NOT WORK - I COULD SEE THE FILES -WORD, EXCEL etc IN THE W DRIVE PUBLIC AREA WHEN USING C/VISTA O/S BUT COULDN'T OPEN THEM) Seems awfully messy.... so...IS there anyway to resolve this mess by 'restoring" file settings/drive settings etc so no matter which operating system I use, I CAN access and use everything that's on my own D Drive? Windows7, incidentally, works like a dream! Though my Vista does too! ANY help would be greatly appreciated. Rgds Rod Perth |
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Screwed Permissions/Sharing...help PLEASE
You might try this...
http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/11...ownership.html I'd take ownership in both OS. Did you run Attrib to remove the hidden attribute? attrib -s -h -r D:\ /d -- Windows 7 RC http://get.live.com/wlmail/overview http://download.live.com/wlmail "Rod" wrote in message ... Hi two separate, but inter-related stories. 1. A few months ago we had a visitor stay from Europe (I am in Perth, Australia) so I decided to 'hide' my files (kept on a separate D drive) so that IF he wanted to use my PC he wouldn't see them. 2. Almost at the same time I decided to partition my C drive into 2 separate drives (creating a drive I named "W", and installed Windows 7 onto W. That left me with a C drive (Vista), a D Drive (files and I-tunes) and W drive (Win 7). Of course I screwed up the settings and permissions...now I - as the only user of this PC - cannot see my own I-Tunes folders and songs on D drive when I am using Win7, and when using Vista cannot access my other files (Word and Excel files predominately) on the D drive . And when using ANY program on my Vista HDD, I have to run them as administrator. This I have done by setting permissions (from within Win7) to have "All Authenticated Users" be able to use my files on D Drive (and I HAD to do this to every folder on D Drive and EVERY file in these folders!). I am thinking that, when using Vista, I have to copy all I-tunes files FROM the D Drive and into the Public Shared folder on my C Drive and likewise, when I boot to my Win7 o/s, I have to copy all files (Word, Excel etc) from D Drive to the Public shared folder in the W Drive. Then FROM Win7 I can see the files in the public shared folder on W drive AND the I-tunes stuff in C Drive's Public Shared folder, and likewise when using Vista on C Drive I can see and use I-tunes stuff on the C Drive and all my other files on W Drive's Public Shared folder. (HAVING JUST TRIED THIS _ IT DID NOT WORK - I COULD SEE THE FILES -WORD, EXCEL etc IN THE W DRIVE PUBLIC AREA WHEN USING C/VISTA O/S BUT COULDN'T OPEN THEM) Seems awfully messy.... so...IS there anyway to resolve this mess by 'restoring" file settings/drive settings etc so no matter which operating system I use, I CAN access and use everything that's on my own D Drive? Windows7, incidentally, works like a dream! Though my Vista does too! ANY help would be greatly appreciated. Rgds Rod Perth |