accessing files

[biker's back]

Ok the files are on an ntsf partion, on a win2k machine and until recently have been fully accessable.

I started having issues when we moved the files to another machine, but they seemed to work alright and now they can't be viewed by any of the machines or for that matter movied at all.

I think the permissions are all mixed up, i tried resetting them but that didn't work. How can these be recovered?

[FlooredAccord]

What files did you transfer and to what operating system(ie WinXP HE or WinXP Pro)?

[FlooredAccord]

You have to take ownership on whatever files you've transferred on the local machine.

[biker's back]

how do i do that?

and win2k

[FlooredAccord]

So you transferred files from a Win2K machine to another Win2k machine? Did you copy them over a network or copy to a CD and then paste to a directory? Well, you should be able to find the file(s) in Explorer. Once found, right click on the selected file and click sharing and security. Click the security tab and then click the advanced button on the bottom. Find the owner tab and click it. Make sure you are an administrator and have the authority to take ownership of the selected files. Change the ownership to whoever. Hope this helps. I have more info, but it's a lot to write.

[mndthegap1]

^^^ that about sums it up, just make sure that if you copied them to a cd first then transfered em over, that you turn off the read only permissions first. usually if you copy pc to cd back to new pc it will assign read only permissions.