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How to disable NTFS ownership enforcement on Win10 for Admins?
Classic story - moved a portable USB HDD to a new Win10 machine. All folders on it are marked as "Owned by the previous user", and therefore it hit me with the "You need permission to ...
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Windows permission: Unable to create file despite having permission
I have a directory that have the same NTFS permission as another. But I cannot create any file in it while I can in the other one. However, anything else seems to be normal, I can modify existing ...
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Some files cannot be deleted/modified in Far Manager
I have Windows 10 machines where Far Manager started acting weird some weeks ago. In several folders, Far is unable to modify/delete files, which were not created by it. I have checked file attributes,...
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Can't open folder - Location is not available
I performed copy of all folders and files from hard disk A to hard disk B,
I had one shared folder on HDD A, this folder was also copied.
I removed HDD A from computer (disk is broken) and let there ...
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Setting file permissions on Windows 10 is very slow
I have Synology active directory running on my NAS. Setting file/folder permissions using windows 10 in network drive is crazy slow. Applying permissions on one file takes few seconds, and it is ...
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How to set un-executable permission for the file in ntfs partition in linux?
Enter into debian whose filesystem is ext4:
vim /tmp/sphinx.rst
sphinx tutorial
=====================
installation
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::
sudo apt-get install python3-sphinx
create a new project
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C:\Windows.old has a phantom permission, how do I rid myself of it?
I just used Clean Install to reinstall on Windows 10 1809 (big mistake, I know). It's the official refreshed version, but it grants ALL APPLICATION PACKAGES permission to C:\Windows.old.
This is ...
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Windows (with NTFS Usermap in Linux) new files permissions error
Whenever I download an exe file to that partition in Windows, I cannot run it at all. It gives me the error: "Windows cannot access the specified device, path, or file. You may not have the ...
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Lost all permissions from directories in Windows 10 and I can't delete them and even take ownership as admin
I was trying to uninstall Rapport a Trusteer application from my computer and the uninstallation program left tracks. So I went to the application's folder and checked that it had System user as owner ...
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Access folder on read-only disk with no NTFS permissions
I have an interesting situation; my main OS hard drive has started to go bad. It's an SSD, and according to the manufacturer, when this happens it automatically switches to a read-only state to ...
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Cannot open/copy files on an external USB NTFS drive because of an issue with permissions
Short story:
I have an external USB HDD drive (NTFS) with some important files which I cannot open/copy any longer because of an issue with access rights.
I assigned all necessary access rights in ...
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Is it possible to change NTFS permissions on a big tree faster?
Is there any way to change permissions for a huge tree faster in Windows?
Is it really necessary to wait hours to just change an owner?
I was thinking that such thing as "inheritance" was invented ...
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