"Yousuf Khan" wrote in message
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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

I agree with JW's suggestion. I was having similar problems accessing files
on my XP share from Win7 (didn't matter what type- pictures, zip files,
executables, whatever), and found that if I downloaded my files to a
temporary location and then copied them to my XP share, I could access them
from Win7 with no problem. But if I downloaded them directly to the XP
share, or moved them to the XP share, some files would produce error
messages when trying to work with them from Win7. I still have the Send To
powertoy installed on my XP machine, so that makes it very simple and easy
to copy the files I want to share. Once I'm sure they're accessible from
Win7, I delete them from the temporary location.

I agree with your last paragraph- I didn't see any unusual properties in
these files, but the simple act of copying instead of moving made them
readily accessible to both machines. Things that make you go huh. . .

Just my 2 cents worth :-)
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SC Tom