OK, does anybody have a solution to this problem? I have a disk farm of external drives of all my images. Many of the drives were created (NTFS) under XP. Problem is on my Vista systems I cannot modify (ie, adding metadata keywords) the files that were created under XP. I've tried a few 'TakeOwnership' scripts on the drives but I still can't do anything but read them in Vista. Anybody have this problem and have a solution?

Lets ask the simple questions first....is your account on the box an administrative one?

Can you edit the actual file (IE open in photoshop and edit them?)

If you create a new file on the hard drive, can you edit that like you want to?

Do you have the overly bossy precautions of Vista turned off?

Roman

Right click the folder, and go to Properties.

Is the read only button checked? If so is it greyed out or a full on black check mark?

This article might apply:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;326549

Also go into the security tab. Go to the bottom and click advanced.

In the resulting box, click "Owner" and see if your user name is listed.

Even if you see your name click "Edit" and in the resulting box highlight your user name and check the box below that says "Replac owner on subcontainers and objects"

Click Apply and OK....let is chug till its done and try again.

Let me know either way.

Roman

Thank you Roman, that worked. Now my only problem is that I have about 10,000 folders hanging off the roots of the drives. My bad. On the first drive I tried this on I had put all the folders into a \data directory and the right click on Properties fixed them all in one click.

Hey...glad I could help. You should be able to do the same for a drive just like a folder.

Roman

Reading this post, I think a little of Roman's "other life" is coming through - Roman the IT professional ....

Yep...day to day stuff for me. :~)

Roman