Reinstalled XP - Lost all of My Documents Content

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A. Prather

PLEASE HELP!!!!!

I reinstalled Windows XP using the recovery disk that came with my
system. I renamed my profile to be the same as what it had been before.
Now, all of my pics in my My Documents folder are gone. Please help as I
need them. Thanx!

A.
 
Names are irrelevent. You get a randomly generated number when a user is created. If the files are still there then they'll be in your old user name in Documents & Settings folder. This name is the name that was used when the account was created, renaming doesn't change it.

Type Taking ownership in help.
 
Good advice accept if he's using XP HE and then you can forget taking possession of any files that remain after an update install or reinstall. There just isn't any way. One of the things that PRO has over HE. You can talk until you are blue in the face about being able to get possessions of files if you are an administrator but as an individual who has attempted this on three seperate occassions all advice by supposed MVPs fail. The GPO in PRO would be a nice tool to have in HE. Have fun.
 
Home has two ways of doing it.One use safe mode and it's same as Pro in non safe domain mode. Or use the command line tool cacls (which is in home), or download the NT4 security editor.

Perhaps if you asked for help with cacls we could have helped you as it's picky about user names with spaces.

EG
cacls "C:\Program Files\Tools" /t /e /c /p "david candy:f"

Note how both path and user name WITH the permissions need to be quoted. Because both have spaces in them.

Now cacls doesn't take ownership which is probably what is required. But xcacls does

http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/techinfo/reskit/tools/existing/xcacls-o.asp

xcacls "C:\Program Files\Tools" /t /c /p "david candy:O"
 
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