Re: Shared Documents Folder renamed and unaccessible

From: Danny (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 12/01/03


Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2003 18:23:17 -0800

Thanks for the reply.

The correct name is indeed C:\Documents and Settings\All
Users\Documents. However, the folder is not private. The
boxed is not checked but it is grayed out.

Danny

>-----Original Message-----
>It's complete name is C:\Documents and Settings\All
Users\Documents.
>Check the properties and see that this isn't made
private. If the box is
>checked, but grayed out, you may have to boot to safe
mode to fix the
>permissions so that all Users may read and write this
folder.
>
>--
>Kent W. England, Microsoft MVP for Windows Security
>
>
>
>"Danny" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
>message news:033c01c3b7a8$eee723e0$a301280a@phx.gbl...
>> This is regarding Windows XP Pro.
>>
>> In My Computer there are several folders under "Files
>> Stored on This Computer" one of them is "Shared
>> Documents". I am not sure how this happened but for
some
>> reason this folder got renamed "Documents" and I cannot
>> access it even with Administrator privileges. This
>> happened once before and logging out solved the problem
>> (the folder was again named "Shared Documents" but now
it
>> happened again and logging out or restarting doesn't
>> help. The folder is named "Documents" for all users of
>> the computer and is not accessible to anyone.
>>
>> Does anyone know a fix?
>>
>> Thanks.
>
>.
>



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