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All that I can gather from Windows help files is that everything I pu
in the Public folder is readily accessible by all users of my PC (ther
is no network here so I'm only concerned with local users). However, w
have two users and only one of them, me, can access the contents of th
Public folder.
We started with just one user, with Admin rights, and all our photo
were contained within the folders of that user. Sometime later
created a second user for my daughter, who is just a standard user. T
ensure she could continue to see our photos, I moved them to th
Pictures folder within the Public folder. Now, when she's logged on (n
log in password incidentally) she can use Explorer to open the Publi
folder, and all the subsequent sub-folders, but when she gets to th
files she only sees blank thumbnail icons and if she double-clicks
file it says she doesn't have permission to view them!
If she tries to open my user folder she immediately gets a messagebo
saying she doesn't have permission to open the folder and must get
password to do so.
So, in the one sense the Public folder is public because she can ope
it, but in another sense it isn't because she can't access any of th
files in it.
If I look at the properties of any of the Public folders or files, he
user name does not appear in the list of users or groups. For tha
matter, on some occasions nor does mine! Instead there is a list of od
words such as BATCH, INTERACTIVE, and other things irrelevant to peopl
such as myself.
I can't find any help anywhere that would explain why a folder that i
supposed to be Public clearly isn't and what to do about it.
Hope you can help
in the Public folder is readily accessible by all users of my PC (ther
is no network here so I'm only concerned with local users). However, w
have two users and only one of them, me, can access the contents of th
Public folder.
We started with just one user, with Admin rights, and all our photo
were contained within the folders of that user. Sometime later
created a second user for my daughter, who is just a standard user. T
ensure she could continue to see our photos, I moved them to th
Pictures folder within the Public folder. Now, when she's logged on (n
log in password incidentally) she can use Explorer to open the Publi
folder, and all the subsequent sub-folders, but when she gets to th
files she only sees blank thumbnail icons and if she double-clicks
file it says she doesn't have permission to view them!
If she tries to open my user folder she immediately gets a messagebo
saying she doesn't have permission to open the folder and must get
password to do so.
So, in the one sense the Public folder is public because she can ope
it, but in another sense it isn't because she can't access any of th
files in it.
If I look at the properties of any of the Public folders or files, he
user name does not appear in the list of users or groups. For tha
matter, on some occasions nor does mine! Instead there is a list of od
words such as BATCH, INTERACTIVE, and other things irrelevant to peopl
such as myself.
I can't find any help anywhere that would explain why a folder that i
supposed to be Public clearly isn't and what to do about it.
Hope you can help