Truncated User Accounts & Private Folders

From: Brent (bbratz@cox.net)
Date: 08/09/02 

From: "Brent" <bbratz@cox.net>
Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 16:58:10 -0700

I am having the same issue that Keith and Roger noted
below, but if Keith is encountering what I am -you can't
even view the data files within the old profile, so you
can't get in to the folders/files to take ownership. (I
am receiving "Access Denied").

I have concluded this is related to the "Make folders
Private" option I selected at some point. Does anyone
know which file or registry setting may be saving these
private folder settings & thus preventing access?

I've tried to recreate new user accounts with
"owner.{PC Name)" to try to regain access, but to no avail.

Thx - Brent

p.s. - Those of you dying to tell me to resort to my back-
up need not reply. If I had an opportunity to back up
before it failed, I would have. :)

>-----Original Message-----
>Roger,
>
>Thanks for your response. What would I look under in the
>Help system?
>
>-Keith
>>-----Original Message-----
>>You need to take ownership of the folders of the
>>old account, and when asked allow it to reset the
>>permissions on the contents. There is info on this
>>in the Help system. If you have Home, then you
>>will need to do this from a safe mode (F8) boot.
>>
>>--
>>Roger Abell
>>MS MVP (Windows Platform), MCSE, MCDBA
>>Associate Expert - Windows XP ExpertZone
>>http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
>>
>>"Keith" <babs06@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>>news:1d8701c23edd$af5c1fe0$3bef2ecf@TKMSFTNGXA10...
>>> Question regarding XP and user accounts. I had to
>>> recently reinstall XP on my box. All of my files are
>>> still on the hard drive, but I can not access them
>because
>>> they are still related to a user account that no longer
>>> exists.
>>>
>>> I have tried to recreate the account, however XP just
>adds
>>> a &#8220;*.HOME&#8221; to the same user account.
>>>
>>> My question is what can I do to take those files out of
>>> that restricted folder so that I can use them?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> -Keith

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