Re: My Documents Folders: Taking Ownership or Setting Permissions

From: Roger Abell {MVP} (mvpNOSPAM_at_asu.edu)
Date: 04/27/03


Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2003 05:34:28 -0700


Is C formatted with NTFS ?
The checkbox with the read-only label on folders is not
the directory's read-only attribute. Yeah - go figure.
Rather, it is a switch used to set or unset the attribute on
the contained files. The attribute on directories can only
be seen and changed with the attrib command.

-- 
Roger Abell
MS MVP (Security, Windows), MCDBA,  MCSE both
Associate Expert - Windows XP ExpertZone
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
"Peter Lacey" <pjlacey@optusnet.com.au> wrote in message news:027001c30c95$34913da0$a601280a@phx.gbl...
> I cannot take ownership nor set permissions for the My 
> Documents folders...or, in fact, for any folders on my c: 
> drive.  The security tab is absent from the property box, 
> and won't appear in spite of repeatedly clearing the "Use 
> simple file sharing" checkbox.
> 
> I don't have the same problem on my other drive.  I also 
> note that I cannot clear the read-only attribute for any 
> directory on c:, again in spite of using ATTRIB at the 
> command prompt.
> 
> Anyone suggest what's going on?
> 
> Peter


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