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Old August 27th 11, 07:59 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,alt.windows7.general,microsoft.public.windowsxp.network_web
Yousuf Khan[_2_]
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Default Windows 7 to XP file sharing: some files are accessible in afolder,some are not

On 27/08/2011 1:53 AM, John Wunderlich wrote:
You say that you are moving files into this shared folder. When
files are _moved_ within the same disk volume, the files retain their
original file protections. So if you move a file that was created in
an area where only you have permissions to it into a shared folder,
it will retain permissions for only you to access it.


Not really, files are coming into this directory after being downloaded
from the Internet, but they didn't actually exist anywhere else within
this computer before they came to this directory.

However, when I started having these problems, in order to test out the
problem, I did begin to copy in files into this folder from elsewhere,
both from remote locations and locally. However, the problem was already
present even before any new files were copied or moved in.

The simple solution is to "copy" a file into the shared folder
instead of "moving" it (drag it with the right mouse button instead
of the left button). When copying the file, the copy will be
assigned the permissions of the containing folder which is probably
what you desire.


None of the files had any unusual permissions beforehand, and neither
did this directory. Certainly nothing that would prevent them from even
being read. So whether it was copied in or moved in, should be
irrelevant as everything should be readable at the very least. And the
fact that there are some files in this directory that are readable is a
sign of this.

Yousuf Khan
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