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Old December 26th 17, 07:27 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
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Default Windows 7 problem with folder of .MTS files

Maurice wrote:

Using Linux (Mageia-5) I copied some .MTS video files to a Christmas
visitor's USB flash drive to take home to her Windows 7 to play back.
Checked that they played back OK under Mageia (VLC).

But when I tried it on my Windows 7, the system denied the existence of
the whole folder on the flassh drive (though no such problem with a
folder
of.jpg files on same flash drive.)

[Then tried with a different folder name, but this time it said the
folder was empty...]

Anyone know of a way to persuade Windows 7 to play ball here, please?

[Is converting all .MTS to .MOV the only way?]


Sounds like a permissions issue. Take ownership of the folder and
inherit ownership onto all child objects. Then set all permissions for
the Everyone pseudo-account and also recurse or inherit the permissions
onto all child objects.

Easier to get Take Ownership. It adds a registry entry that runs the
the takeown.exe and icacls.exe command-mode programs to take ownership
and change permissions to All while recursing through the child objects.
You could run the same commands from a shell (with admin permissions)
but the registry entry with the command line is much easier. After
install, open Windows Explorer, right-click on a folder or file, and
select Take Ownership.

https://www.sevenforums.com/tutorial...-shortcut.html

Does mean, however, the object is visible in Windows Explorer so you can
right-click on it to select Take Ownership. Did you check the
file/folder attributes using the attrib.exe command in an admin-level
shell (cmd.exe)? For a folder object, be sure to include the /D switch.
Run "attrib /?" to get help.
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