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Travis

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External hardrive folder permissions denied
« on: September 28, 2015, 10:31:28 PM »
I have an external hard drive that I use for just about everything, but it would appear since I replaced my laptop and/or upgraded to Windows 10  last month I can't add anything to the drive anymore.  I can read and copy just fine, but it says I need permission to create a folder or add files to the drive.  I've been in the permissions and my admin account is the owner and I have full permissions for the drive yet it keeps saying I need them do anything.  I've looked at Microsoft's help pages, but they're all Windows 7 advice. I suppose I could copy everything, format the drive, and put everything back, but that's a few hours of work.  Any ideas?

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Re: External hardrive folder permissions denied
« Reply #1 on: September 29, 2015, 12:04:23 PM »
You can try resetting permissions on all the files/folders. The magic "Replace all existing inheritable permissions on all descendants with inheritable permissions from this object" checkbox. I'm not on a Windows 10 machine right now, but I think I remember it being there.

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Re: External hardrive folder permissions denied
« Reply #2 on: September 29, 2015, 04:25:56 PM »
So it turns out the issue was isolated to a particular folder on that drive.  For whatever reason claiming full ownership and permissions on the drive as a whole didn't permeate down to all the individual folders and files.  Fixed now.

 

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