Extrenal Hard Drive Problems

[halfbakedchef]

So last week i formated and reinstalled everything on my computers hard drive. now when i plug my external hard drive cotaining my back up shit and music, i can not acess the music. when i change the permissions one at a time, i can start to open folders but still cant play the music. dont have admin priv, which i do? so my question is 1 how can i recaliam all my music folders w/o hjaving to click on each folder. 2 why wont my pc recgonize my admin privliges and play my damn music.

 

[Leroy]

Seems wonky, what OS are you using? Presumably win7? Bypass all that shit, open up a shell and manually copy the files over.

 

[halfbakedchef]

i dont have the space on my pc hard drive for all my music

 

[Leroy]

Well try it, at least, copy a file from the external HD to your machine, then using win explorer copy it back, can you now play this one file?

 

[halfbakedchef]

yeah i will try that, it weird i have acess to all my pictures and docmuments, even encrypted files but not my music. gay

 

[AndyDizzle]

Same thing happened to me hbc. Lame shit. I eventually got my music though, all I really cared about.

 

[OG buckshot jr]

If you copied one of the "main" folders under your user account such as "My Music", or "Downloads", then yes - these folders are designated as only permissable to the original user. There should be a few easy ways to bypass any permissions issues.

Here's one way that should be solid.

1 ) Right-click the "My Music" folder on your external hard drive, click Properties.
2 ) Find the "Security" tab. Then click on Advanced.

3 ) Then click on the "Owner" tab.

4 ) Click on "Edit" button

5 ) Under the "Change owner to" heading, select your user name (I'm assuming you're an 'administrator' on your own computer), and make sure to check the "replace owner on subcontainers and objects" box.

6 ) Click Apply, then OK. This should effectively give you full privilege of all contents in that folder.

EDIT: I just want to add that Windows Snipping Tool and the new Microsoft Paint are fucking amazing. Incredibly useful, easy to use, and I'll-be-damned functional. This, alone, would be enough for me to keep using Windows to some extent...