Folder Renaming - Access Denied

[Sumner Buck]

>-----Original Message-----
>After swapping hard drives and reinstalling everything
(!) and setting up the WLAN, I have suddenly got
an 'Access Denied' message when I try to rename my folders
(My Documents etc., which has already changed names once
since the reinstallation...). All my docs & files are on a
separate drive where I can still create & change new
folders but not change the names of the ones I created
before a few days ago - I can still change the folders
inside these though.
>
>Any ideas? (I am the only account on my WinXP Home
laptop.)
>
>Cheers,
>
>Chris
>
>
>.
>IF I have understood your problem it appears your
permissions have not carried over to the new hard drive
during the restore. To solve the problem you will need
to "take ownership" of the folder and all the sub-folders
in the drive where you are having denial of access. Go to
properties|advanced|owner of the parent folder on the
drive and set youself as the owner.

[Chris Burson]

"Sumner Buck" > wrote in message
: >
: >-----Original Message-----
: >After swapping hard drives and reinstalling everything
: (!) and setting up the WLAN, I have suddenly got
: an 'Access Denied' message when I try to rename my folders
: (My Documents etc., which has already changed names once
: since the reinstallation...). All my docs & files are on a
: separate drive where I can still create & change new
: folders but not change the names of the ones I created
: before a few days ago - I can still change the folders
: inside these though.
: >
: >Any ideas? (I am the only account on my WinXP Home
: laptop.)
: >
: >Cheers,
: >
: >Chris
: >
: >
: >.
: >IF I have understood your problem it appears your
: permissions have not carried over to the new hard drive
: during the restore. To solve the problem you will need
: to "take ownership" of the folder and all the sub-folders
: in the drive where you are having denial of access. Go to
: properties|advanced|owner of the parent folder on the
: drive and set youself as the owner.


Well, sort of... I haven't been denied access totally - just to rename the
folder (and I've already re-named it from 'My Documents' to 'Chris' New
Documents'. I can still access and change any of it's contents though. This
applies to three or four of the seven or eight folders on that partition but
the remainder are quite normal!

I just don't understand... (!?)

Cheers,

Chris

P.S. I looked for the Owner tab or button in Properties/Advanced but I
haven't got one - just four options for archiving/indexing and
compression... I'm missing something here aren't I?!