Unaccessable Folders

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Richard Urban

No. They are system protected. Also, they are just pointers (links) to the
real folders which are also system protected.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
 
Certain folders under Users, when clicked, access is denied.
Any way around this?

Thanks,
James
 
As Richard said,

These are not folders, they are application compatibility junctions. These
locations no longer exist in Vista, as they have been replaced, moved, or
renamed.

Do not edit the security on these junctions.

You should learn where the location you are trying to access has been moved
to, and use the new location.

To do that, you can use the command prompt. CD to the folder that contains
the location you are trying to access, issue a 'dir /al' command, and find
the junction you are looking for and it will display the location that it
points to in brackets.


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- JB
Microsoft MVP - Windows Shell/User

Windows Vista Support Faq
http://www.jimmah.com/vista/
 
I had this happen after I restored my Documents folder with Nero 7 BackItUp.
It put my Documents into a folder in Documents. I copied all the files and
folders from /Documents/Documents into the Documents folder and it would not
let me open any files but everything in any folder was fine. I restored
again, overwriting the files and it still failed. I had to delete the files,
restore them to a different folder and then copy them. I' lost : /
 
Did you back up the documents using Nero 7 in Windows XP? If so, the problem
may have been with the security settings that Windows XP applied to the
files.


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- JB
Microsoft MVP - Windows Shell/User

Windows Vista Support Faq
http://www.jimmah.com/vista/
 
I these folders are under the Users folder and have an arrow
indicating a link.
Is this by design?

James
 
I backed up the files with Nero 7 under Vista RC2 #5744. The computer has
exactly the same name and same user.
 
I already said as much.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
 
OK...

If it was a completely different installation of Windows (regardless of
version), then the security settings would be different enough not to work.

Security settings go by ID number internally, not user name, so even though
the user names may be the same, the internal ID numbers would not.


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- JB
Microsoft MVP - Windows Shell/User

Windows Vista Support Faq
http://www.jimmah.com/vista/
 
What ever they go by Vista is very confusing.
I've had it for 5 days and can't figure out why
some folders a accessable and others aren't.
Maybe I'll revert back to XP!!
 
JamesJ said:
What ever they go by Vista is very confusing.
I've had it for 5 days and can't figure out why
some folders a accessable and others aren't.
Maybe I'll revert back to XP!!
Click to expand...


It's a learning curve. You'll get it. Any folder that is dimmed and has
the curved arrow overlay in Explorer is not accessible, and that's because
you don't need to go into it. They are actually junction points, all they
contain is a link to another folder where the actual data is stored. These
junction points exist for compatibility with older programs. For example
the \Documents and Settings folder is not used in Vista, but it is set up as
a junction for older programs that look for it. The junction links to the
actual folder in vista which is \Users

To see where each of these junction points links, open an elevated command
prompt. Go to start | run, type in cmd, when it pops up at the top right
click on it and choose run as administrator.

Navigate to C:\ and give this command: dir /al /s

It will list all the junction points and the real folder to which it points.
 
I was going to ask why the folders with arrows are there.
It's getting better each day.

Thanks,
James
 
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