Cannot revert (change back) folder permissions settings

Hello,

I've been racking my brain trying to figure this out all day and have come
to a stand-still:

This morning, I was trying to assign permissions to some folders on a
network drive. However, I mistakenly denied permissions to Everyone for that
folder. No biggie, I thought... I'll just set it back to what it was before!

Upon trying to do so, I got this error message:

\\vault\MediaShare\Music\Mixes\Misc is not accessible. You might not have
permission to use this network resource. Contact the administrator of this
server to find out if you have access permisssions. Access is denied.

So, I guess I effectively locked out not only Everyone, but the
administrator, as well? That's silly.

Anyways, I did a ton of investigation to try to figure this out and I tried
a few things:

1. "unlocked" the super Administrator login, which is hidden by Vista as
default
2. tried using the 'takeown' utility to force the permissions to allow admin
3. tried using BPACLer.exe to also force the permissions
4. fiddled around with the Security Properties on the folder

All of the above did not work. I either still kept getting the Access
Denies messages or I was unable to change any of the properties because
options were greyed out.

I am at a complete loss. If anyone can suggest anything, I am open to
anything.

Thank so much in advance.

I'm getting the same issue but I denied access to my own folders and I'
the administrator. Now I can't do anything...

Did you ever figure this out

Thanks

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maglib

maglib;1189857 Wrote:
> I'm getting the same issue but I denied access to my own folders and I'
> the administrator. Now I can't do anything...
>
> Did you ever figure this out
>
> Thanks

First try takeownership of folder
http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/67...rship-file.htm

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Flavius

My first issue was that I couldn't get ownership as I was denied acces
but then I went to the link you gave and had a problem as even ge
cmd.exe to run as administrator off the pull down nor would my compute
even do a search so after trying a few things I was able to finally ge
the cmd.exe file from c:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe and run it a
administrator (why it worked that way must be because I didn't own th
the pulldown?

I then was able to finally take ownership. Hopefully my problems wil
go away

Thanks for your help
Barbar

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maglib

maglib;1190119 Wrote:
> My first issue was that I couldn't get ownership as I was denied acces
> but then I went to the link you gave and had a problem as even ge
> cmd.exe to run as administrator off the pull down nor would my compute
> even do a search so after trying a few things I was able to finally ge
> the cmd.exe file from c:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe and run it a
> administrator (why it worked that way must be because I didn't own th
> the pulldown?
>
> I then was able to finally take ownership. Hopefully my problems wil
> go away
>
> Thanks for your help
> Barbar
And what about throug windows explorer Window (METHOD 2,OPTION 2 fro
my link)?It should be easier

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Flavius

Option 1 I believe worked so I didn't need to try option 2. Once I go
over the cmd prompt issue, it was easy

Now I'm having an issue with indexing and search failed to initialize

One suggestion I found was through Control panel indexing option
advanced to do both a restore defaults and rebuild. But I get a messag
that

"Indexing is reduced due to user activity. If you choose to rebuil
now, the index will be unavailable and will not be rebuilt unti
indexing is restored.

Should I hit OK? Is there another way as I know this may take hours

Thank you for the great advice

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maglib

maglib;1190157 Wrote:
> Option 1 I believe worked so I didn't need to try option 2. Once I go
> over the cmd prompt issue, it was easy
>
> Now I'm having an issue with indexing and search failed to initialize
>
> One suggestion I found was through Control panel indexing option
> advanced to do both a restore defaults and rebuild. But I get a messag
> that
>
> "Indexing is reduced due to user activity. If you choose to rebuil
> now, the index will be unavailable and will not be rebuilt unti
> indexing is restored.
>
> Should I hit OK? Is there another way as I know this may take hours
>
> Thank you for the great advice

Try reinstall Windows Searc
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/pro...owssearch4.msp
It it don't help,go to Start>>Search>>services.msc stop & disabl
*Windows Search* service.This service isn't very needed

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Flavius

I think you've been the only tech person who has actually got my issue
resolved on the first shot

Hoping there won't be any more.... Still stuck with Vista......

Working on updating an older ME computer to XP. Wish me luck

Thank you

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maglib