Jeff Gaines wrote:
I have a suspicion that it is because I keep my data on the "D" drive and >>Win 10 works on numbers (?SID) not names so the "jeff" from the previous >>install is not recognised as the "jeff" from the new install.
Yes it uses the SIDs, but if there are "remnants" of old permissions, the >files/folders should show up a "question mark head" as the person it
thinks has permissions, do you see any of those?
I used to use setACL to clean them up
<https://helgeklein.com/setacl>
I have a suspicion that it is because I keep my data on the "D" drive
and Win 10 works on numbers (?SID) not names so the "jeff" from the
previous install is not recognised as the "jeff" from the new install.
I have raised this before and was pointed towards ICACLS which has been
a life saver, sorry can't remember who suggested it.
I have a suspicion that it is because I keep my data on the "D" drive
and Win 10 works on numbers (?SID) not names so the "jeff" from the
previous install is not recognised as the "jeff" from the new
install.
Perhaps the law of unintended consequences at work? I don't remember
issue like this on Win 8, is it Win 10 obtrusiveness causing the
issue I wonder?
It's a facet of the way permissions are managed in NTFS. You don't have
this problem with FAT.
If I formatted an external drive to FAT32, copied data to it, formatted
the drive on the PC and then copied the files back would that clear up
the permissions?
I have 59 files over 4 GB so would need to deal with those manually.
On 05/07/2023 18:49, Jeff Gaines wrote:
If I formatted an external drive to FAT32, copied data to it, formatted
the drive on the PC and then copied the files back would that clear up
the permissions?
Not necessarily ... but possibly.
Firstly, FAT32 and NTFS have different rules about filename lengths, path >lengths, and characters allowed in filenames, so the copy might not be >identical to the original.
Secondly, the file ownership and permissions once you'd copied everything >back would be determined by the permissions of destination drive ... so
you might copy a file that belonged to the Administrator but was readable
by the user account and get back a copy that belonged to the user account.
There may also be differences in things like the granularity of
timestamps, I don't recall.
These things might not happen, and might not matter, but you can't say
that the procedure will necessarily be a success.
I have 59 files over 4 GB so would need to deal with those manually.
Use exFAT instead of FAT32?
64,000 dollar question. What about using exFAT on the Z620 (which runs Win
10 and ill be the server with all my data on it)? Might save all these
issues next time I re-install.
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