Access Denied after moved to different folder

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Having an odd problem on XP that I'm hoping someone knows how to correct.

The short-story is that moving a working file to another folder makes it no longer work. I get access denied error. To test, I created a new folder on the desktop and moved a working file into it (a word doc) and when I try to open it I get the following error:

"Word cannot open the document: user does not have access priviledges"

The user is an administrator, which should make access not be an issue. I have seen many people complaining about this on forums but have yet to find a solution other than maybe going through each file and taking ownership once it's moved.. but that's not really fixing the problem.

Anyone seen this before??
 
Thanks for your post, but the problem is that I should have access to these files since the user is an administrator. It's only when they are moved to a different folder that they are not accesible.
 
even if I create a new folder and move a working file into it? I shouldn't be getting denied access... or at least I've never seen such a thing.
 
I think the permissions for the parent folder (it may even be the root of the drive?) say that any new files inherit it's permissions, which say that you as a user don't have access to them.

That makes sense to me anyhow.
 
How to take ownership of a file
You must have ownership of a protected file in order to access it. If another user has restricted access and you are the computer administrator, you can access the file by taking ownership.

To take ownership of a file, follow these steps:

1. Right-click the file that you want to take ownership of, and then click Properties.
2. Click the Security tab, and then click OK on the Security message (if one appears).
3. Click Advanced, and then click the Owner tab.
4. In the Name list, click Administrator, or click the Administrators group, and then click OK.

The administrator or the administrators group now owns the file.

To change the permissions on the file that you now own, follow these steps:

1. Click Add.
2. In the Enter the object names to select (examples) list, type the user or group account that you want to have access to the file. For example, type Administrator.
3. Click OK.
4. In the Group or user names list, click the account that you want, and then select the check boxes of the permissions that you want to assign that user.
5. When you are finished assigning permissions, click OK.
6. You can now access the file.

How to take ownership of a folder
You must have ownership of a protected folder in order to access it. If another user has restricted access and you are the computer administrator, you can access the folder by taking ownership.

To take ownership of a folder, follow these steps:

1. Right-click the folder that you want to take ownership of, and then click Properties.
2. Click the Security tab, and then click OK on the Security message (if one appears).
3. Click Advanced, and then click the Owner tab.
4. In the Name list, click your user name, or click Administrator if you are logged in as Administrator, or click the Administrators group. If you want to take ownership of the contents of the folder, select the Replace owner on subcontainers and objects check box.
5. Click OK, and then click Yes when you receive the following message:
You do not have permission to read the contents of directory folder name. Do you want to replace the directory permissions with permissions granting you Full Control?
All permissions will be replaced if you click Yes.

Note folder name is the name of the folder that you want to take ownership of.
6. Click OK, and then reapply the permissions and security settings that you want for the folder and its contents.
 
Thanks TimeCode.

The problem is that I AM able to use these files... until I move or copy/past to a different folder. Even if that folder is one I just created. Until a file is moved, it works and opens fine.
 
TechGuy71 said:
Thanks TimeCode.

The problem is that I AM able to use these files... until I move or copy/past to a different folder. Even if that folder is one I just created. Until a file is moved, it works and opens fine.
Click to expand...

Ok, sorry, I jumped the gun. Does it matter which files are moved or which folders they're moved to. Can you give a real-life example detailing types of files and exact folders to and from?
 
Well the customer reports that whenever you move a file to a different folder, that file along with everything else in that folder becomes unusable... you get either access denied or a permission error. He seemed to think that it was exclusive to Microsoft products, but I have tried it with a PDF also and got an error when trying to open. Now the files in the original folder all still work, and I can't see any differences in the permissions between the folders or files. Trying to determine if it was the folders themselves, I created a new folder on the desktop and moved working Word docs into them (actually copies of them so I didn't lose any more files)... and they give me the same access denied errors. Very strange...

I have searched for this online and it does seem that others have had the same problem but I have yet to see any solution for it, other than booting to safe mode and taking ownership of the files. This would probably make the files accessible again, but it doesn't fix the problem itself..
 
I really think there's a 'root' folder that's propagating permissions to anything put in it's subfolders.

Try this:

Code: 
cacls c:

And then move on to the docs and settings and then the profile folder. If I'm right, the user account you're using won't have full rights to one of those folders, then check that folder's permissions and ownership.
 
arrow_runner said:
I really think there's a 'root' folder that's propagating permissions to anything put in it's subfolders.

Try this:

Code: 
cacls c:

And then move on to the docs and settings and then the profile folder. If I'm right, the user account you're using won't have full rights to one of those folders, then check that folder's permissions and ownership.
Click to expand...


You're probably right. I will have to start working my way through the parent folders to check them. I wonder though how this happened, since it seems to be a problem for others as well.
 
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