I have a machine which I've made from parts of an older PC. Everything in
it was new, except for the IDE hard drive, which is both small and old. So,
I went out and purchased a new SATA HD. I decided to install Vista onto the
new HD, but leave and old IDE HD in place, so that I could copy files out of
people's My Documents folders into their new locations under Vista.

Well, I had forgotten about the security put upon everyone's My Documents
folder under Documents and Settings, under Windows XP. Getting to all of
those files is a real pain. I can go in and take ownership of each file,
but that looks to me as though I have to respond to a dialog box, one file
at a time, and that is not a reasonable option. How can I get those files
out of those older My Documents folders? Do I remove the security that is
in place for each one, or what do I do?

Rod

Hi Rod,

Right click the Documents and Settings folder, select properties. Go to the
security tab and click advanced. Go to the Ownership tab, click edit. Change
to your account AND enable the box to propagate to all subfolders and
containers. Apply/ok your way out, it may take some time to run through but
should change permissions for access on all the user account folders.

Just as an added note, if you encrypted any of the user files, you would
need the original encryption certificate in addition to the above steps.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
[url]http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/[/url]
Windows help - [url]www.rickrogers.org[/url]
My thoughts [url]http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com[/url]

"Rod" <Rod@NO.SPAM> wrote in message
news:u1FBUYGoHHA.1476@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...[color=blue]
>I have a machine which I've made from parts of an older PC. Everything in
> it was new, except for the IDE hard drive, which is both small and old.
> So,
> I went out and purchased a new SATA HD. I decided to install Vista onto
> the
> new HD, but leave and old IDE HD in place, so that I could copy files out
> of
> people's My Documents folders into their new locations under Vista.
>
> Well, I had forgotten about the security put upon everyone's My Documents
> folder under Documents and Settings, under Windows XP. Getting to all of
> those files is a real pain. I can go in and take ownership of each file,
> but that looks to me as though I have to respond to a dialog box, one file
> at a time, and that is not a reasonable option. How can I get those files
> out of those older My Documents folders? Do I remove the security that is
> in place for each one, or what do I do?
>
> Rod
>[/color]

Rick,

I am afraid that it did not work.

Rod

"Rick Rogers" <rick@mvps.org> wrote in message
news:ucp%23ajGoHHA.4188@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...[color=blue]
> Hi Rod,
>
> Right click the Documents and Settings folder, select properties. Go to
> the security tab and click advanced. Go to the Ownership tab, click edit.
> Change to your account AND enable the box to propagate to all subfolders
> and containers. Apply/ok your way out, it may take some time to run
> through but should change permissions for access on all the user account
> folders.
>
> Just as an added note, if you encrypted any of the user files, you would
> need the original encryption certificate in addition to the above steps.
>
> --
> Best of Luck,
>
> Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
> [url]http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/[/url]
> Windows help - [url]www.rickrogers.org[/url]
> My thoughts [url]http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com[/url]
>
> "Rod" <Rod@NO.SPAM> wrote in message
> news:u1FBUYGoHHA.1476@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...[color=green]
>>I have a machine which I've made from parts of an older PC. Everything in
>> it was new, except for the IDE hard drive, which is both small and old.
>> So,
>> I went out and purchased a new SATA HD. I decided to install Vista onto
>> the
>> new HD, but leave and old IDE HD in place, so that I could copy files out
>> of
>> people's My Documents folders into their new locations under Vista.
>>
>> Well, I had forgotten about the security put upon everyone's My Documents
>> folder under Documents and Settings, under Windows XP. Getting to all of
>> those files is a real pain. I can go in and take ownership of each file,
>> but that looks to me as though I have to respond to a dialog box, one
>> file
>> at a time, and that is not a reasonable option. How can I get those files
>> out of those older My Documents folders? Do I remove the security that is
>> in place for each one, or what do I do?
>>
>> Rod
>>[/color]
>[/color]

Hi,

What didn't work? The permissions/ownership change? Or do you still get an
error when you try to access the files?

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
[url]http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/[/url]
Windows help - [url]www.rickrogers.org[/url]
My thoughts [url]http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com[/url]

"Rod" <Rod@NO.SPAM> wrote in message
news:e$6oiRMoHHA.3952@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...[color=blue]
> Rick,
>
> I am afraid that it did not work.
>
> Rod
>
> "Rick Rogers" <rick@mvps.org> wrote in message
> news:ucp%23ajGoHHA.4188@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...[color=green]
>> Hi Rod,
>>
>> Right click the Documents and Settings folder, select properties. Go to
>> the security tab and click advanced. Go to the Ownership tab, click edit.
>> Change to your account AND enable the box to propagate to all subfolders
>> and containers. Apply/ok your way out, it may take some time to run
>> through but should change permissions for access on all the user account
>> folders.
>>
>> Just as an added note, if you encrypted any of the user files, you would
>> need the original encryption certificate in addition to the above steps.
>>
>> --
>> Best of Luck,
>>
>> Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
>> [url]http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/[/url]
>> Windows help - [url]www.rickrogers.org[/url]
>> My thoughts [url]http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com[/url]
>>
>> "Rod" <Rod@NO.SPAM> wrote in message
>> news:u1FBUYGoHHA.1476@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...[color=darkred]
>>>I have a machine which I've made from parts of an older PC. Everything in
>>> it was new, except for the IDE hard drive, which is both small and old.
>>> So,
>>> I went out and purchased a new SATA HD. I decided to install Vista onto
>>> the
>>> new HD, but leave and old IDE HD in place, so that I could copy files
>>> out of
>>> people's My Documents folders into their new locations under Vista.
>>>
>>> Well, I had forgotten about the security put upon everyone's My
>>> Documents
>>> folder under Documents and Settings, under Windows XP. Getting to all of
>>> those files is a real pain. I can go in and take ownership of each file,
>>> but that looks to me as though I have to respond to a dialog box, one
>>> file
>>> at a time, and that is not a reasonable option. How can I get those
>>> files
>>> out of those older My Documents folders? Do I remove the security that
>>> is
>>> in place for each one, or what do I do?
>>>
>>> Rod
>>>[/color]
>>[/color]
>
>[/color]

The permissions/ownership action fails on several files, but it seems to
complain about some very long GUID like string, that is associated with
several different files. I have to constantly press the return key in order
to respond to numerous dialog boxes all saying the same thing that file
such-and-such won't be modified because of <very long number here, which
looks like some GUID or perhaps a SID>. Then when I try to copy the file
from its old location under the "D:\Documents and Settings\..." are to
C:/users/<my account>/Documents it won't copy it, saying that I don't have
any permissions to do so, even though I run as Administrator.

Do you know of a command line equivalent that I might be able to run against
the old location, to try and fix this, please?

Rod

"Rick Rogers" <rick@mvps.org> wrote in message
news:eqUOkmMoHHA.2452@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...[color=blue]
> Hi,
>
> What didn't work? The permissions/ownership change? Or do you still get an
> error when you try to access the files?
>
> --
> Best of Luck,
>
> Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
> [url]http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/[/url]
> Windows help - [url]www.rickrogers.org[/url]
> My thoughts [url]http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com[/url]
>
> "Rod" <Rod@NO.SPAM> wrote in message
> news:e$6oiRMoHHA.3952@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...[color=green]
>> Rick,
>>
>> I am afraid that it did not work.
>>
>> Rod
>>
>> "Rick Rogers" <rick@mvps.org> wrote in message
>> news:ucp%23ajGoHHA.4188@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...[color=darkred]
>>> Hi Rod,
>>>
>>> Right click the Documents and Settings folder, select properties. Go to
>>> the security tab and click advanced. Go to the Ownership tab, click
>>> edit. Change to your account AND enable the box to propagate to all
>>> subfolders and containers. Apply/ok your way out, it may take some time
>>> to run through but should change permissions for access on all the user
>>> account folders.
>>>
>>> Just as an added note, if you encrypted any of the user files, you would
>>> need the original encryption certificate in addition to the above steps.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Best of Luck,
>>>
>>> Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
>>> [url]http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/[/url]
>>> Windows help - [url]www.rickrogers.org[/url]
>>> My thoughts [url]http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com[/url]
>>>
>>> "Rod" <Rod@NO.SPAM> wrote in message
>>> news:u1FBUYGoHHA.1476@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>>>>I have a machine which I've made from parts of an older PC. Everything
>>>>in
>>>> it was new, except for the IDE hard drive, which is both small and old.
>>>> So,
>>>> I went out and purchased a new SATA HD. I decided to install Vista onto
>>>> the
>>>> new HD, but leave and old IDE HD in place, so that I could copy files
>>>> out of
>>>> people's My Documents folders into their new locations under Vista.
>>>>
>>>> Well, I had forgotten about the security put upon everyone's My
>>>> Documents
>>>> folder under Documents and Settings, under Windows XP. Getting to all
>>>> of
>>>> those files is a real pain. I can go in and take ownership of each
>>>> file,
>>>> but that looks to me as though I have to respond to a dialog box, one
>>>> file
>>>> at a time, and that is not a reasonable option. How can I get those
>>>> files
>>>> out of those older My Documents folders? Do I remove the security that
>>>> is
>>>> in place for each one, or what do I do?
>>>>
>>>> Rod
>>>>
>>>[/color]
>>
>>[/color]
>[/color]

"Rod" <Rod@NO.SPAM> wrote in message
news:%23A7cGXNoHHA.4188@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...[color=blue]
>
> Do you know of a command line equivalent that I might be able to run
> against the old location, to try and fix this, please?[/color]

Have you tried copying via command line (as opposed to trying to remove the
permissions problem via command line, which is what I think you're asking)?
Maybe xcopy would do the trick. I'm afraid my DOS and DOS-equivalent days
are long gone, so I'm not sure if that's what you need.
But if you go into a command prompt and type "xcopy/?" (without the quotes,
of course) it will give you a long list of switches. It could be you don't
need any switch and that xcopy by itself will do the trick.

Hi,

From an elevated command prompt:
cacls D:\Documents and Settings /T /C /G <user>:F

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
[url]http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/[/url]
Windows help - [url]www.rickrogers.org[/url]
My thoughts [url]http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com[/url]

"Rod" <Rod@NO.SPAM> wrote in message
news:%23A7cGXNoHHA.4188@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...[color=blue]
> The permissions/ownership action fails on several files, but it seems to
> complain about some very long GUID like string, that is associated with
> several different files. I have to constantly press the return key in
> order to respond to numerous dialog boxes all saying the same thing that
> file such-and-such won't be modified because of <very long number here,
> which looks like some GUID or perhaps a SID>. Then when I try to copy the
> file from its old location under the "D:\Documents and Settings\..." are
> to C:/users/<my account>/Documents it won't copy it, saying that I don't
> have any permissions to do so, even though I run as Administrator.
>
> Do you know of a command line equivalent that I might be able to run
> against the old location, to try and fix this, please?
>
> Rod
>
> "Rick Rogers" <rick@mvps.org> wrote in message
> news:eqUOkmMoHHA.2452@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...[color=green]
>> Hi,
>>
>> What didn't work? The permissions/ownership change? Or do you still get
>> an error when you try to access the files?
>>
>> --
>> Best of Luck,
>>
>> Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
>> [url]http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/[/url]
>> Windows help - [url]www.rickrogers.org[/url]
>> My thoughts [url]http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com[/url]
>>
>> "Rod" <Rod@NO.SPAM> wrote in message
>> news:e$6oiRMoHHA.3952@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...[color=darkred]
>>> Rick,
>>>
>>> I am afraid that it did not work.
>>>
>>> Rod
>>>
>>> "Rick Rogers" <rick@mvps.org> wrote in message
>>> news:ucp%23ajGoHHA.4188@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>>>> Hi Rod,
>>>>
>>>> Right click the Documents and Settings folder, select properties. Go to
>>>> the security tab and click advanced. Go to the Ownership tab, click
>>>> edit. Change to your account AND enable the box to propagate to all
>>>> subfolders and containers. Apply/ok your way out, it may take some time
>>>> to run through but should change permissions for access on all the user
>>>> account folders.
>>>>
>>>> Just as an added note, if you encrypted any of the user files, you
>>>> would need the original encryption certificate in addition to the above
>>>> steps.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Best of Luck,
>>>>
>>>> Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
>>>> [url]http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/[/url]
>>>> Windows help - [url]www.rickrogers.org[/url]
>>>> My thoughts [url]http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com[/url]
>>>>
>>>> "Rod" <Rod@NO.SPAM> wrote in message
>>>> news:u1FBUYGoHHA.1476@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>>>>>I have a machine which I've made from parts of an older PC. Everything
>>>>>in
>>>>> it was new, except for the IDE hard drive, which is both small and
>>>>> old. So,
>>>>> I went out and purchased a new SATA HD. I decided to install Vista
>>>>> onto the
>>>>> new HD, but leave and old IDE HD in place, so that I could copy files
>>>>> out of
>>>>> people's My Documents folders into their new locations under Vista.
>>>>>
>>>>> Well, I had forgotten about the security put upon everyone's My
>>>>> Documents
>>>>> folder under Documents and Settings, under Windows XP. Getting to all
>>>>> of
>>>>> those files is a real pain. I can go in and take ownership of each
>>>>> file,
>>>>> but that looks to me as though I have to respond to a dialog box, one
>>>>> file
>>>>> at a time, and that is not a reasonable option. How can I get those
>>>>> files
>>>>> out of those older My Documents folders? Do I remove the security that
>>>>> is
>>>>> in place for each one, or what do I do?
>>>>>
>>>>> Rod
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>[/color]
>>[/color]
>
>[/color]