Been using Vista over a month and have been pretty happy with. Until last night.
I restored a backup of My Pictures and its subdirectories from my previous XP setup. I placed them under a temporary root subdirectory. The problem is I couldn't access ANY of the files after restoring them. Clicking on the various jpegs just gave me a file not found error. Eventually, I discovered that I had to set permissions on each subdirectory for me as a user to Modify or Full Control before they became accessible. One directory with various stored web pages and associated images would not even allow me to set permissions by directory...I had to individually set permissions for EACH FILE! I noticed that those files did not list me as a user, but instead it had some number string as a user. I had to add myself as a user first, then give myself permissions. That took me over two hours.
What's the deal with permissions? Do I have to do this for all data I restore from XP? I never had permissions issues in XP... This is a royal PITA if there's not a workaround for it.
I restored a backup of My Pictures and its subdirectories from my previous XP setup. I placed them under a temporary root subdirectory. The problem is I couldn't access ANY of the files after restoring them. Clicking on the various jpegs just gave me a file not found error. Eventually, I discovered that I had to set permissions on each subdirectory for me as a user to Modify or Full Control before they became accessible. One directory with various stored web pages and associated images would not even allow me to set permissions by directory...I had to individually set permissions for EACH FILE! I noticed that those files did not list me as a user, but instead it had some number string as a user. I had to add myself as a user first, then give myself permissions. That took me over two hours.
What's the deal with permissions? Do I have to do this for all data I restore from XP? I never had permissions issues in XP... This is a royal PITA if there's not a workaround for it.