I store my pictures on an external hard drive. Recently i had to replace the internal hard drive on my pc. today I attempted to access my picture folders.Now I only have access to about half of my folders.I can force permission to open the folders but when I attempt to open pic's I get this message."can't open this picture because you don't have the correct permission to access the file location" I have never seen this before,at a total loss,I've traveled around the world to take these pic's and would love to have them back.Any help would be greatly appreciated.
SOLVED Lost permission to access photo's
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Perhaps you might try this:
Download and install the "Take Ownership" script from our Freeware DB.
Then open Windows Explorer and under computer, under the external drive, select the folder under which the pics are stored (you only have to do this for the highest level folder because it will process subfolders automatically but if there are multiple folders at the root level then you will have to do this multiple times); right-click and choose "Take Ownership" from the context menu.
If you can now access those pictures normally then proceed to take ownership of the rest of your folders on that drive.
Hopefully that solves your access problem but if not, let us know.
Download and install the "Take Ownership" script from our Freeware DB.
Then open Windows Explorer and under computer, under the external drive, select the folder under which the pics are stored (you only have to do this for the highest level folder because it will process subfolders automatically but if there are multiple folders at the root level then you will have to do this multiple times); right-click and choose "Take Ownership" from the context menu.
If you can now access those pictures normally then proceed to take ownership of the rest of your folders on that drive.
Hopefully that solves your access problem but if not, let us know.
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You often find this situation when you hook up an external drive that was created on a different computer.
I really doubt it was anything you did, I believe it was just because you had a "new" W7 when you replaced the HD and so you no longer had "ownership" of these files (or rather your current ownership criteria didn't match the criteria stored with the external files).
I'm glad it worked for you. I would suggest maybe you also burn your pictures to a DVD. It's always a good idea to have another back-up of things that are important.
I really doubt it was anything you did, I believe it was just because you had a "new" W7 when you replaced the HD and so you no longer had "ownership" of these files (or rather your current ownership criteria didn't match the criteria stored with the external files).
I'm glad it worked for you. I would suggest maybe you also burn your pictures to a DVD. It's always a good idea to have another back-up of things that are important.