Re: Changing access permissions with xcacls,vbs

As Nepatsfan said you need to take ownership of those folders which will
grant you permissions to change permissions to the folders even if you don't
have any permissions to them. Then you want to add your user account or
administrators with full control permissions in the security page. When
taking ownership be sure to select the option to change owner on
subcontainers and objects. As far as xcacls.vbs try using quotes around the
path to the folder instead of using underscore in the spaces in the path
name as in xcacls.vbs "f:\Documents and Settings\Danielle Robocti". ---
Steve

"Delores" <thisis@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hello group,

If this is not the correct group for my question, please suggest the
appropriate group.


I'm doing some service on a friend's computer. Windows has been
damaged in some way, to where I cannot get it to boot, even in safe
mode. Boot hangs part way through.

I took the hard drive of the computer with Windows damage and put in
another computer as a second drive, in order to save data files before
wiping drive and doing a fresh install of Windows.

One user has set their folders to private, so i cannot access them to
save the data contained within.

As I cannot boot to Windows on the computer wit the damage, i cannot
set that person's folders to be veiwable.

I did some looking on the Internet and found xcacls.vbs, which I
THINK I can use to change the folder's access permissions in DOS, so I
can then access te folder from my other computer.

I am very rusty with DOS and have been unable to get the correct
command sequence. I am simply trying to VIEW the folder and its
settings. Once I can do that, I'll tackle changing its permissions.

The setup is as follows:

Drive in question is F drive folder is called Danielle Robocti
and is located within Documents and Settings

I have xcacls.vbx located in root folder of F drive.

Have tried xcacls.vbc f:\Documents_and_Settings\Danielle_Robocti
and several variations, but keep getting told folder cannot be found.
I'm pretty sure I have not typed something quite right.

Hoping someone ca help with this. If so, perhaps you could also tell
me the command to allow access to the folder within Windows. That is,
take the "private" setting off of the folder.

If xcacls.vbs is not the right way to go about this, perhaps you
could suggest a way i COULD get access to the folder.


Any help anyone can offer would be much appreciated.

Thank you in advance fr any assistance you can offer

Delores



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