File Access Denied despite being administrator, owning the files, and having full permissions
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I'm trying to copy data from my old laptops hard drive to my new desktop's. But on a certain folder, I can't copy any of the actual files - just the subfolders. I am informed that I require permission from myself, the only user and administrator on the computer, to change the file. I have taken own…
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takeown /f <folder> /r
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Fix for: File Access Denied despite being administrator, owning the files, and having full permissions
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The problem is that your user (on the new computer) doesn't have access to the encryption keys (from the old computer) that were used to encrypt the files. Windows, confusingly, gives an "access denied" error message when trying to read an EFS-encry…
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