Anyone know why I have locks on some of my folders?


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These locks are all appearing on folders I was sharing before I went from build 7055 to RC.

1. I've tried placing permissions on the drive itself and root folders

2. I've tried taking ownership

Nothing helps

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I know it's RC but I'd still like to know why lock is showing up on the icon. The root folders show up as read only as well even though all the child objects do not. Regardless of what I do, it that root folder remains as read only

On a related note - do I need all these users to show up in my security settings? I think these have been carried over for a while but I don't think I need anything more than maybe everyone set to full control. this is for an archive drive (meaning no system files etc). Can someone check what they have?

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Actually, looks like the folders are being treated as system folders just like some of the folders in the C:\ drive.

EDIT...

I just moved everything into new folders - good enough

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The locks indicates that the folder contents is private to one user.

the pic above shows which users had access to the folder actually. I think part of the problem might have been that I moved the locations of the "My xxx" folders and forgot to move back when reformatting.

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  • 1 month later...

Can someone explain why this happened all of a sudden. I use Firefox and have a download folder where I send everything. When I first installed the RC1, all my downloads would go in here and there weren't padlocks on them. Over the last month, everything that goes in here now does. Why are they going in here with padlocks?

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It has to do with Homegroup bugs.

Right click the offending folder -> Properties -> Security. Add "Everyone" back to the list of authorized users and the locks will go away.

In some cases you may have to re-take ownership of the folders before you can do this.

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