Subscribe to Confident Computing! Less frustration and more confidence, solutions, answers, and tips in your inbox every week. A junction point is a hidden file pointer in NTFS. What does that mean to you? It means that older programs, which are hard coded to copy files to the My Documents directory, will be redirected to the new Documents folder in Windows Vista.
Where is it? Where does this get to be a challenge? I use RoboCopy to back-up my documents onto a thumb-drive each day at work. This gives me a portable, readable image that is easy to work with. Guys, the solution for this is simple. You just have to take ownership of those folders and there subfolders in Vista. Then you will have full permission to access the content. The permission only changes in Vista. Not all folders are accessible. The junction point folders will still say denied.
No matter what you do. Because they are are virtual. By placing them in a virtual folder. But they are accessible by ways of the junction point folders.
No matter how you try to set them or your permissions. For example, if you tried to install Visual Studio Beta 1 from a folder on your desktop in Windows XP assuming your username was your first and last name there were files that would fail to install because of this limitation.
I eventually figured this out, but in the process i deleted some of these junction points. Looking at the original article, I believe I did everything right. I went thru and added myself, as administrator and as user for the security settings. What did I miss? I have known about the shortcut and hidden juntions but my question is, if I erase them will Vista still work ok? I found that the change in location, by Vista, can affect Movie Maker.
There may be other programs that have the same problem. I have not come across them. What is strange is that Movie Maker comes installed with the OS. Any idea how to open thay both folder?
Uncheck show all files and the problem goes away. Thank god you posted this. My outlook. I am unable to locate the AppData folder on my C drive. Once te archive process was done, my C drive free space was down by a little more than 3GB yes, I had a lot of stuff accumulated in Outlook.
After this, the link icon appeared on certain folders. I am buying a Mac laptop this coming week primarily because of the poor quality of the Vista OS. Sorry for the vitriol towards Microsoft, but when I spend 2 months of my time working out one Vista bug after another with my Bangalore buddies, and loosing hours of work yes I back up I kind of loose interest in even turning the machine at all…. They have replaced it and asked me to retrieve their data.
I have removed the drive and have it in a USB connected drive case. I can read some of the folders in Users, but many are still inaccessible — This folder may have been moved or be offline…. Hey, thanks for this posting. I must add that I am using windows xp home not the program you are talking about but thought you might still be able to help. I found a solution to show the Documents and Settings yesterday i open it look! Hey I m Nafiz, I can,t access my recent and cookies folder in my profile in windows 7.
Can u give any solution to that???? Office Local files Signatures, Personal. I dont like owning a chest of drawers that the manufacturer locks me out of some drawers! You have access to see the folder but not the contents. Thank you for these useful tips, iv been trying to access pictures that iv lost for months, and iv finally been able to access them!!
Right-click on the Documents Folder. Select Properties. Click Security tab. Click Advanced in the lower right corner. In the Advanced Security Settings window that pops up, click on the Owner tab.
Click on Edit Button and select user from given Change Owner to list if user or group is not in given list then, click on other users or groups. You can even click on administrator here, if you are logged in as an administrator.
Click ok when Windows Security Prompt is displayed. Now Owner name must have changed. Now click Ok to exist from Properties windows. Go to C: and then click right click on folder and choose properties. If you click on a dvanced now click on Find Now and choose everyone and click Ok.
Microsoft cannot guarantee that any problems resulting from the configuration of ownership settings can be solved. Modifications of the settings are at your own risk. Was this reply helpful? Yes No. Sorry this didn't help. Thanks for your feedback. This thread is locked.
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