Vista Permissions

My desktop pc running XP was involved in a physical 'disaster'. Luckily, I
found that the SATA HDD was in working order, only suffering a couple of
scratches to the casing. I purchased a laptop, running Vista Business. Using
a USB connector etc I transferred many of the old HDD files to the laptop.
But I have thousands of files in the 'my documents' folder/subfolders and to
my horror I was denied permission to copy or transfer those to the laptop. I
discovered that I could change the user and permissions for each file
individually, but that's a daunting task for the many files involved. So far,
I haven't found a way to change the files en masse and haven't seen a
'multiple file' type of option.

Does anyone know of a solution?

Hi,

The solution is not to change permissions, but ownership of the top level
folder and have it propagate. Right click the folder, choose properties and
go to the security tab. Click advanced and go to the ownership tab, click
edit. Change the ownership to your account and enable the box for this to
include all subfolders and containers. Apply/ok your way out, it will take a
bit as the permissions are changed. You should then be able to easily access
the files.

--
Best of Luck,

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

"namlevram" <> wrote in message
news:08914BA8-77EA-4CBD-A0EB-...
> My desktop pc running XP was involved in a physical 'disaster'. Luckily, I
> found that the SATA HDD was in working order, only suffering a couple of
> scratches to the casing. I purchased a laptop, running Vista Business.
> Using
> a USB connector etc I transferred many of the old HDD files to the laptop.
> But I have thousands of files in the 'my documents' folder/subfolders and
> to
> my horror I was denied permission to copy or transfer those to the laptop.
> I
> discovered that I could change the user and permissions for each file
> individually, but that's a daunting task for the many files involved. So
> far,
> I haven't found a way to change the files en masse and haven't seen a
> 'multiple file' type of option.
>
> Does anyone know of a solution?

Many thanks for what was alkmost a 100% solution to the problem. Of the
(literally) thousands of files only 135 refused to change their settings.
Thanks again.

"Rick Rogers" wrote:

> Hi,
>
> The solution is not to change permissions, but ownership of the top level
> folder and have it propagate. Right click the folder, choose properties and
> go to the security tab. Click advanced and go to the ownership tab, click
> edit. Change the ownership to your account and enable the box for this to
> include all subfolders and containers. Apply/ok your way out, it will take a
> bit as the permissions are changed. You should then be able to easily access
> the files.
>
> --
> Best of Luck,
>
> Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
> Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
> My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com
>
> "namlevram" <> wrote in message
> news:08914BA8-77EA-4CBD-A0EB-...
> > My desktop pc running XP was involved in a physical 'disaster'. Luckily, I
> > found that the SATA HDD was in working order, only suffering a couple of
> > scratches to the casing. I purchased a laptop, running Vista Business.
> > Using
> > a USB connector etc I transferred many of the old HDD files to the laptop.
> > But I have thousands of files in the 'my documents' folder/subfolders and
> > to
> > my horror I was denied permission to copy or transfer those to the laptop.
> > I
> > discovered that I could change the user and permissions for each file
> > individually, but that's a daunting task for the many files involved. So
> > far,
> > I haven't found a way to change the files en masse and haven't seen a
> > 'multiple file' type of option.
> >
> > Does anyone know of a solution?
>
>