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Kingston Data Traveller readonly in user account
Win XP Home SP3
I have a Kingston Data Traveller USB Flash drive, which is read only in a user account, and behaves normally in an Admin Account I have tried the Attrib command attrib -r X:*.* which works fine in Admin but two files are blocked from having the attrib changed in a user account - a program shortcut and an ico file for the drive. The ico file for the drive also says in file properties (user account) that it was created in another computer and has been blocked. The unblock option appears to work but doesn't actually change anything in the user account. If I create a simple Notepad file and try to save it to the drive, in a user account, I get an error message - Save File - "Cannot access this file. Check security privileges over the network drive" I think this has happened following a Windows update but can't find the exact problem after googling, particularly because the drive behaves normally in an Admin account. So I think it is a Windows issue to do with "permissions" setting rather than a drive problem. (The drive was recently re-formatted) - but I can't find out what I need to change from an Admin account. Any suggestions welcome. thanks in advance. -- Robert |
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Kingston Data Traveller readonly in user account
Probably the drive is formatted with the NTFS file system. Files copied by the admin onto the drive or folders created by him get the credentials of the admin. So, a non admin cannot delete or write them. You can change the permissions by right clicking a file or folder, select properties and change the permissions on the Security tab. Or the quick and global way: To give everyone full access to all files and folders on this drive: cacls U: /T /G Everyone:F Change U: to the drive letter of your drive and "Everyone" to the right group name of you local Windows, e.g. on a german Windows it is "Jeder"... Of course you have to do this as an admin. Uwe Robert M Jones wrote: Win XP Home SP3 I have a Kingston Data Traveller USB Flash drive, which is read only in a user account, and behaves normally in an Admin Account I have tried the Attrib command attrib -r X:*.* which works fine in Admin but two files are blocked from having the attrib changed in a user account - a program shortcut and an ico file for the drive. The ico file for the drive also says in file properties (user account) that it was created in another computer and has been blocked. The unblock option appears to work but doesn't actually change anything in the user account. If I create a simple Notepad file and try to save it to the drive, in a user account, I get an error message - Save File - "Cannot access this file. Check security privileges over the network drive" I think this has happened following a Windows update but can't find the exact problem after googling, particularly because the drive behaves normally in an Admin account. So I think it is a Windows issue to do with "permissions" setting rather than a drive problem. (The drive was recently re-formatted) - but I can't find out what I need to change from an Admin account. Any suggestions welcome. thanks in advance. |
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Kingston Data Traveller readonly in user account
Probably the drive is formatted with the NTFS file system. Files copied by the admin onto the drive or folders created by him get the credentials of the admin. So, a non admin cannot delete or write them. You can change the permissions by right clicking a file or folder, select properties and change the permissions on the Security tab. Or the quick and global way: To give everyone full access to all files and folders on this drive: cacls U: /T /G Everyone:F Change U: to the drive letter of your drive and "Everyone" to the right group name of you local Windows, e.g. on a german Windows it is "Jeder"... Of course you have to do this as an admin. Uwe Robert M Jones wrote: Win XP Home SP3 I have a Kingston Data Traveller USB Flash drive, which is read only in a user account, and behaves normally in an Admin Account I have tried the Attrib command attrib -r X:*.* which works fine in Admin but two files are blocked from having the attrib changed in a user account - a program shortcut and an ico file for the drive. The ico file for the drive also says in file properties (user account) that it was created in another computer and has been blocked. The unblock option appears to work but doesn't actually change anything in the user account. If I create a simple Notepad file and try to save it to the drive, in a user account, I get an error message - Save File - "Cannot access this file. Check security privileges over the network drive" I think this has happened following a Windows update but can't find the exact problem after googling, particularly because the drive behaves normally in an Admin account. So I think it is a Windows issue to do with "permissions" setting rather than a drive problem. (The drive was recently re-formatted) - but I can't find out what I need to change from an Admin account. Any suggestions welcome. thanks in advance. |
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Kingston Data Traveller readonly in user account
On 29/05/2010 20:04, Uwe Sieber wrote:
Probably the drive is formatted with the NTFS file system. Files copied by the admin onto the drive or folders created by him get the credentials of the admin. So, a non admin cannot delete or write them. You can change the permissions by right clicking a file or folder, select properties and change the permissions on the Security tab. Or the quick and global way: To give everyone full access to all files and folders on this drive: cacls U: /T /G Everyone:F Change U: to the drive letter of your drive and "Everyone" to the right group name of you local Windows, e.g. on a german Windows it is "Jeder"... Of course you have to do this as an admin. Uwe Robert M Jones wrote: Win XP Home SP3 I have a Kingston Data Traveller USB Flash drive, which is read only in a user account, and behaves normally in an Admin Account I have tried the Attrib command attrib -r X:*.* which works fine in Admin but two files are blocked from having the attrib changed in a user account - a program shortcut and an ico file for the drive. The ico file for the drive also says in file properties (user account) that it was created in another computer and has been blocked. The unblock option appears to work but doesn't actually change anything in the user account. If I create a simple Notepad file and try to save it to the drive, in a user account, I get an error message - Save File - "Cannot access this file. Check security privileges over the network drive" I think this has happened following a Windows update but can't find the exact problem after googling, particularly because the drive behaves normally in an Admin account. So I think it is a Windows issue to do with "permissions" setting rather than a drive problem. (The drive was recently re-formatted) - but I can't find out what I need to change from an Admin account. Any suggestions welcome. thanks in advance. Viel Danke - Sehr gut! That worked a treat! -- Robert |
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Kingston Data Traveller readonly in user account
On 29/05/2010 20:04, Uwe Sieber wrote:
Probably the drive is formatted with the NTFS file system. Files copied by the admin onto the drive or folders created by him get the credentials of the admin. So, a non admin cannot delete or write them. You can change the permissions by right clicking a file or folder, select properties and change the permissions on the Security tab. Or the quick and global way: To give everyone full access to all files and folders on this drive: cacls U: /T /G Everyone:F Change U: to the drive letter of your drive and "Everyone" to the right group name of you local Windows, e.g. on a german Windows it is "Jeder"... Of course you have to do this as an admin. Uwe Robert M Jones wrote: Win XP Home SP3 I have a Kingston Data Traveller USB Flash drive, which is read only in a user account, and behaves normally in an Admin Account I have tried the Attrib command attrib -r X:*.* which works fine in Admin but two files are blocked from having the attrib changed in a user account - a program shortcut and an ico file for the drive. The ico file for the drive also says in file properties (user account) that it was created in another computer and has been blocked. The unblock option appears to work but doesn't actually change anything in the user account. If I create a simple Notepad file and try to save it to the drive, in a user account, I get an error message - Save File - "Cannot access this file. Check security privileges over the network drive" I think this has happened following a Windows update but can't find the exact problem after googling, particularly because the drive behaves normally in an Admin account. So I think it is a Windows issue to do with "permissions" setting rather than a drive problem. (The drive was recently re-formatted) - but I can't find out what I need to change from an Admin account. Any suggestions welcome. thanks in advance. Viel Danke - Sehr gut! That worked a treat! -- Robert |
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