I have just bought a new computer running Widows 7 Professional (64bit). I have connected my external hard drive to my new machine. My extensive collection of photographs are stored on this drive. These files were written to this drive when I was using my previous lap top which ran Widows 7 Home Premium. I have a constant need to be able to move my photographs between folders on the drive using Windows. When I try and do this however the following dialogue box appears:
File Access Denied
You will need to provide Administrator Permissions to move this file.
(There is an option to click 'continue' and when I do this Windows does then allow me to move my files, presumably because I am the Administrator).
After hours of research I have now taken OWNERSHIP of the hard drive and all its files but unfortunately that in itself has not solved the problem of denied access. It seems that the solution relates to PERMISSIONS for the drive itself plus folders, sub-folders and files thereon.
I have selected a couple of folders and manually changed the Permissions to allow me Full Control and found that by doing this Windows does now allow me to move files between those folders without the Access Denied error message occurring.
I have several hundred folders and several thousand image files on this and another external drive however and so my question is whether there is a way of applying a set of permissions to every folder on a drive in one fell swoop. Anyone who can crack this for me will be my friend for life!
File Access Denied
You will need to provide Administrator Permissions to move this file.
(There is an option to click 'continue' and when I do this Windows does then allow me to move my files, presumably because I am the Administrator).
After hours of research I have now taken OWNERSHIP of the hard drive and all its files but unfortunately that in itself has not solved the problem of denied access. It seems that the solution relates to PERMISSIONS for the drive itself plus folders, sub-folders and files thereon.
I have selected a couple of folders and manually changed the Permissions to allow me Full Control and found that by doing this Windows does now allow me to move files between those folders without the Access Denied error message occurring.
I have several hundred folders and several thousand image files on this and another external drive however and so my question is whether there is a way of applying a set of permissions to every folder on a drive in one fell swoop. Anyone who can crack this for me will be my friend for life!