Re: Opening an orphaned Private Folder ???

"Mitchell Carpentry" <MitchellCarpentry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:B8494E9E-C62C-47DA-AB97-9523D1EBCA79@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
"Bruce Chambers" wrote:

If you hadn't encrypted the data files (which could not have been done
with WinXP Home), you may be facing nothing more than a simple permissions
issue. Have you tried taking ownership of the old folders?

Thank you for the help, I followed the KB link and brought back those files
with little difficulty.

Pen Mitchell
mitchellcarpentry@xxxxxx





You're welcome.

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