Need administrator access to modify files I created myself

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Daniel Noll

Hi all...

Something has been bugging me about Vista lately.

I'll create a file just from a normal app, i.e. not in "Run as
administrator" mode, and then later decide to rename it, but it says I need
administrator privileges to modify the file.

Security tab for the file and the directory it's in says full control for
SYSTEM, Administrators, and my own username, so I don't see why I should
need to be administrator.

It seems this permissions stuff needs a bit of work before it can really be
usable.

Daniel
 
Security tab for the file and the directory it's in says full control
It sounds like you may need to "Take Ownership" of that file before you
can modify it. This link will show you how to do it.
Click to expand...
<snip>

I already know how to do it, I'm just sick of having to do it five times a
day just to get work done. How is it that files created by myself aren't
owned by myself?

Daniel
 
Hi Daniel

The key to this behavior is where are you creating / saving / renaming these
files?

The folder structure in Vista has changed from previous Windows versions.
With a different security model, you may need to rethink some ways that you
have always done things in order to maintain the integrity of the new
structure and avoid all of the elevation prompts.

Any user created files should be placed somewhere in that users account
folders under C:\Users\your username or the C:\Users\Public. If you try to
save these files in areas such as, C:\Program Files, C:\Windows, the root of
C:, etc, they will be subject to the elevation prompts and permissions like
you are describing.
 
Ronnie said:
The key to this behavior is where are you creating / saving / renaming
these files?

The folder structure in Vista has changed from previous Windows versions.
With a different security model, you may need to rethink some ways that
you have always done things in order to maintain the integrity of the new
structure and avoid all of the elevation prompts.
Click to expand...

Well, what you describe is how I have been using Windows forever anyway.
I've always been putting files under %USERPROFILE% since the first time it
existed, mainly because I'm used to this sort of behaviour from UNIX-based
OSes which (usually) also enforce this kind of structuring.
Any user created files should be placed somewhere in that users account
folders under C:\Users\your username or the C:\Users\Public. If you try to
save these files in areas such as, C:\Program Files, C:\Windows, the root
of C:, etc, they will be subject to the elevation prompts and permissions
like you are describing.
Click to expand...

The files are being created under a subdirectory, C:\Users\Myself\Projects.
I use it to store checkouts of software I'm working on, keeping it out of
the way of ordinary documents and so forth.

Daniel
 
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