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Joes2Silly · Post by **Joes2Silly** » Tue Apr 25, 2006 4:11 pm

After doing a system restore on my computer (I messed up a driver), the computer denied me access to my documents, yes a pop-up literally says "you cannot open My documents, access is denies. What can I do to fix this problem

NES_fanatic · Post by **NES_fanatic** » Tue Apr 25, 2006 4:20 pm

And thus the machine rebellion has begun...

Either that or you're using Hannibal Lecter's computer

blackbox_dev · Post by **blackbox_dev** » Tue Apr 25, 2006 4:25 pm

You may have to reformat. It's what I would do, but you prolly want to backup your My Documents folder first.

What version of Windows are you running, and if 2k/XP is your hard drive formatted in the NTFS or FAT32 file system?

vb_master · Post by **vb_master** » Tue Apr 25, 2006 4:27 pm

Logged on as Admin?

timmeh87 · Post by **timmeh87** » Tue Apr 25, 2006 4:39 pm

restart in safe mode. (im pretty sure you can only do this in safe mode). log on as admin. right click on the folder, and a "security" option should be there that wasnt before. you can control acess to the folder. (only in safe mode). you gotta add the account you want to be able to acess it to the list. or something.

or myabe its something else. worth a try though.

sam fisher · Post by **sam fisher** » Tue Apr 25, 2006 4:58 pm

Joes2Silly wrote:After doing a system restore on my computer (I messed up a driver), the computer denied me access to my documents, yes a pop-up literally says "you cannot open My documents, access is denies. What can I do to fix this problem

I was about to type what timmeh said but hes already done it! If its XP Home it will be in either sharing/security or security. I dont remember which.

In XP Pro a safemode restart is not required. Right click the containing folder and go to the security tab. Change the owner to yourself. There is a 'change owner to current user' button or something like that. I had the same problem a few years ago so I had to contact a very polite MS Rep named aaron.

Joes2Silly · Post by **Joes2Silly** » Tue Apr 25, 2006 7:12 pm

I am loged in as admin, it still wont open, and I cant find a driver CD (not one of the problems I need help with) Update: I got My Documents to open but now the folders in it wont open

PS I know it is a problem with file sharing but it wont let me make my folders in my documents private (thats how I got my documents to open)

blackbox_dev · Post by **blackbox_dev** » Tue Apr 25, 2006 7:14 pm

I wrote:What version of Windows are you running, and if 2k/XP is your hard drive formatted in the NTFS or FAT32 file system?

*Ahem*

Post by **Sparkfist** » Tue Apr 25, 2006 8:30 pm

First reformate the hard drive and then install Linux.Your computer will run a lot better.

If you really want to fix the problem. What you need to do is log in as the Admin and change the permission access for you're account on *account name* My Documents. Likely you some how lost the read access to the folder.

joevennix · Post by **joevennix** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 3:26 pm

Just go to Disk Utility and repair permissions. Oh... wait nevermind.

Joes2Silly · Post by **Joes2Silly** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 3:39 pm

sooo, nobod can help me

Ill figure something out eventually............

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