Moved Favorites - access denied

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Gordon

Vista Home Premium.
I moved my Favorites folder using Properties-Location into my User folder on
the data drive - got "access denied" when trying to save a URL.
Tried this command as an administrator in E:\Users\Gordon\:
icacls favorites /setintegritylevel (OI)(CI)low

got he error "can't find folder".

Any thoughts?
 
Gordon laid this down on his screen :
Vista Home Premium.
I moved my Favorites folder using Properties-Location into my User
folder on the data drive - got "access denied" when trying to save a
URL.
Tried this command as an administrator in E:\Users\Gordon\:
icacls favorites /setintegritylevel (OI)(CI)low

got he error "can't find folder".

Any thoughts?
Click to expand...

Look here for the correct procedure:
http://vistabits.info/unable_to_add_favorites.htm

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Mamamegs.
Microsoft MVP Windows Desktop Experience

Problemen met Windows Vista? www.vistabits.nl

Windows Vista Problems? www.vistabits.info
 
Gordon said:
That's exactly what I did - the only difference being that I ran cmd as
my User as I am an administrator on the computer.
Running cmd as "administrator" I get exactly the same error:
The system cannot find the file specified.
Successfully processed 0 files; Failed processing 1 files
Click to expand...

In fact it's just worked - the instructions on that page are ambiguous - the
command should be executed in the folder which CONTAINS the favorites
folder - the page says "navigate to your favorites folder" which in my book
says go INTO your favorites folder...
 
Yes. The instructions on that page are incorrect!

Others:

See Jimmy Brush's site for instructions. He IS the original owner of that tip:

When attempting to add a favorite in Internet Explorer you receive an "Unspecified Error":
http://www.jimmah.com/vista/Applications/ie_cant_add_favorites.aspx

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Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User]
Windows® Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com
Winhelponline.com blog http://www.winhelponline.com/blog


Gordon said:
That's exactly what I did - the only difference being that I ran cmd as
my User as I am an administrator on the computer.
Running cmd as "administrator" I get exactly the same error:
The system cannot find the file specified.
Successfully processed 0 files; Failed processing 1 files
Click to expand...

In fact it's just worked - the instructions on that page are ambiguous - the
command should be executed in the folder which CONTAINS the favorites
folder - the page says "navigate to your favorites folder" which in my book
says go INTO your favorites folder...
 
Thanks! I'd also appreciate if the source is credited.

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Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User]
Windows® Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com
Winhelponline.com blog http://www.winhelponline.com/blog


Mamamegs said:
Yes. The instructions on that page are incorrect!
Click to expand...

Thanks for pointing that out, it's been corrected.

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Mamamegs.
Microsoft MVP Windows Desktop Experience

Problemen met Windows Vista? www.vistabits.nl

Windows Vista Problems? www.vistabits.info
 
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